However, the Z4 will also run Tizen 3.0, and as the developer’s notes for the latest version of the OS show, the software is getting some pretty interesting new features. It now supports Khronos’ new graphics API Vulkan, which should provide a boost to mobile gaming; and the open-source web runtime Crosswalk, which should make for a smoother internet-browsing experience. Version 3.0 also adds support for 64-bit Intel and ARM CPUs; multiple users on a single device (take that iOS); and voice control via S Voice. Of course, not all of these features will be available on the Z4, but the handset will be the first to feel at least some of these benefits (Vulkan being the big one).
I want one of these Z phones, but they are pretty much impossible to come by.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/samsungs-tizen-is-riddled-wi…
That’s a shame, because Samsung hardware is generally (minus the Note 7 of course) solidly built and even their cheaper phones are nice. A Samsung smartphone without Android would be a perfect backup phone for someone like me, but I wouldn’t touch it after reading about all the bugs and gaping holes.
Well first off, the Note 7 WAS solidly built, just the batteries that were 3rd party (both times) weren’t.
Secondly, I’m pretty sure they’ve patched their TVs and such since that article (at least my TV had an update, though I hardly even turn that one on).
I was about to post the same thing. Tizen is great if you like your OS to be swiss cheese.
Wouldn’t touch one of these phones with even a power only USB cable. (Phone equivalent of a 10ft pole). Samsung’s software is utter crap, as the post above mine shows, provably so.
With the amount of SDK reboots the platform has had, they seem to be trying really hard to beat Microsoft in making developers angry.
Lets recapitulate:
– Maemo joins with Moblin and becomes Tizen
– Samsung adds Bada OS C++ SDK into Tizen (Symbian C++ like)
– Samsung does a facelift to their C++ APIs
– Samsung replaces the SDKs with Enlightenment C APIs, telling C++ developers a new set of APIs will eventually come and in the meantime they could just use the C API directly
– Samsung announces a partnership with Microsoft to bring .NET Core and Xamarin Forms into Tizen instead of the promised C++ APIs
Really, who with commercial interest in building mobile applications, would sponsor such platform?!
Isn’t that .Net stuff optional and there is still EFL used as prefered ?
Btw. you forgot the Qt stuff. They also announced Qt and QML compatibility and such way back when the first Samsung Z1 launched.
I wasn’t even aware of it. So yet another bullet point.
Yeah but I don’t see why this should anger developers.
Isn’t it better for developers to choose their prefered language to code their apps in for the plattform ?
Adding more flexibility ?
Not if you have to rewrite the platform code for your app every couple years. That leads to the developer deciding that the platform simply isn’t worth the trouble, particularly if it has very few users.
Adding more APIs that do the same as the existing ones means that there’s a lack of focus and direction. Which on of these should I use for my application? I don’t want to choose the wrong one and regret it later.
For users it’s also bad. All these different ways will not result in a consistent user experience.
You missed a spot; Maemo joined with Moblin to create MeeGo. Then Nokia bailed out because of Microsoft, and then Samsung joined and it became Tizen.
And Maemo/MeeGo went through at least four ux development platforms, too.
The Z2 and Z3 are for sale on amazon.in. If you really want one, I would guess it can’t be that hard to find someone in India who wants to order one for you?
It’s still Tizen….so….yeah…