 "Tizen said to be dead after recent delay by Samsung")
Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin has posted an interesting tweet that has caused quite a stir among fans of Samsung’s Tizen OS. According to Murtazin, Samsung isn’t merely delaying its Tizen-based devices. The company is supposedly outright killing the operating system.
This comes hot on the heels of recent news of Samsung having delayed its first Tizen smartphones by two months. The handsets, dubbed Melius and Redwood, were originally believed to be slated for an August launch, albeit that part was never officially confirmed.
Despite Murtazin’s controversial tweet, however, we recommend that you take it with a pinch of salt, since any operating system has its share of naysayers and doomsday predictors.
Last month, it was revealed that the OS will be supporting two chipsets: the Exynos 4212 and the Exynso 4412 . The revelation comes thanks to a couple of lines in the Tizen repository, where Samsung revealed some of the parts of the Tizen-based handsets.
Some believe that Tizen might never see the light of day after a first handset
The first is a modified version of what went into the Samsung Galaxy S2, which means it will be a dual-core CPU and could likely be used for mid-range Melius handset. Redwood , the high-end Tizen smartphone that leaked earlier, will most likely get the Exynos 4412, which was used in the Samsung Galaxy S3. Both SoCs have their graphics handled by Mali-400 GPUs, which have been well known to deliver good graphics performance.
We knew that Samsung wouldn’t be going the whole hog when it came to specs with the first Tizen devices. So it was no surprise that the Exynos 5 Octa hasn’t been mentioned as the SoC. Nevertheless, the reference to Exynos 4412 comes as good news, as it’s still quite a good SoC as seen in our review of the Galaxy S3 .
The only disappointment is seeing the Exynos 4212, which despite being a revamped version of the dual-core Cortex-A9 CPUs, sounds outdated. We would have liked to see Samsung push the envelope and include a Cortex-A15 chip for one of the phones.
Ever heard of one of those people who just never seem to shut up about something? Shunal is like the nerd equivalent of that guy. Believe us when we say that he can go on talking about games and smartphones for hours on end. We do manage to find some insight in his insane ramblings though, and through his moronic facade, he does seem to know more than he lets on. Sadly enough, it always ends up being about gaming with him. Or stupid, stupid puns.