Android and Tizen OS have appealing user interfaces but with different features. The Tizen OS is easy to use with large icons ...

The news follows a number of delays that pushed the launch of Samsung’s first Tizen phone back from last year, but the consumer tech giant apparently has no plans to delay things any further.

Samsung will likely consider extending Tizen’s reach if these phones find success in Eastern markets, though it remains to be seen whether or not this is a long-term play with global reach.

mobile phone, or tablet. For a 'smart' platform, most TV operating systems are surprisingly dumb. Tizen is only found on ...

Tizen was one of the ways Samsung planned to wean itself off of Android. Right now, most of Samsung's phones run Android, but that adds a heavy dependence on Google and its software and services.

Samsung co-CEO J.K. Shin has said he'd like to see Tizen on "everything" that Samsung makes, including phones. Such a move would (in theory) transfer 25% of the U.S. market to Tizen from Android ...