Tizen reference tablet specs revealed

Things may be quiet on the Tizen front, but the operating system is definitely not dead. According to Tizen Experts, a tablet running on the Tizen operating system is set to be showcased during the Smartphones and Mobile Exhibition Expo late October. Thanks to the website, we also have some of the specifications of the tablet.

The tablet, dubbed the Tizen Magnolia RD-210, is a reference design running on Tizen OS 2.0.0. It is still in the prototype stage, and as a result, the OS isn’t optimised for tablets yet. Check out the video of the tablet:

It will have a 10.1-inch display with a WUXGA resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, giving it a pixel density of 224 ppi. Under the hood, it’s powered by a quad-core processor based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 and clocked at 1.4GHz. It will have 2GB of DDR3 RAM, so things should move quite smoothly on the tablet. Storage is handled by 32GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot. The camera seems to be the weakest point of this tablet, with the rear shooter having a 2 megapixel sensor and the front one a 0.3 megapixel camera.

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Again, this is a reference design of a Tizen tablet and will not be hitting store shelves. It will essentially act as a point of reference for OEMs to make their own tablets running on Tizen.

Samsung’s Tizen handsets, dubbed Melius and Redwood, were rumoured to be released in August. While there was no real confirmation about it, sources suggest that the phones have been delayed for a couple of months.