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TECHNOLOGY => Computing and Internet => Topic started by: GSMArena on May 24, 2013, 08:30 PM

Title: The Samsung I8800 is a Tizen smartphone, photos leak
Post by: GSMArena on May 24, 2013, 08:30 PM
Samsung integrated (http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_officially_retiring_bada_molding_it_into_tizen-news-5606.php) its Bada OS into the Tizen project a while ago, but we are yet see a smartphone running on the open source project. However, traces of a Samsung device running on Tizen was confirmed (http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_device_running_tizen_os_confirmed_by_uaprof-news-6081.php) by a UAProf earlier and now, the images of the smartphone with Tizen 2.1 have surfaced online.

Images of Samsung Redwood with Tizen 2.1

The upcoming Tizen (http://www.gsmarena.com/screenshots_of_tizen_meego_successor_leak-news-3634.php) smartphone from Samsung has been codenamed "Redwood" and bears the GT-I8800 model name.

The design of the device looks quite similar to the company's own Galaxy smartphones. Samsung has obviously baked a few of its proprietary Android features into the Tizen OS such as S-Voice, Wi-Fi Direct and S-Beam.

The only thing we know about the Samsung I8800 Redwood is that it comes with a 720p display and runs the Tizen 2.1 OS.

The smartphone will be given away to some 500 developers, participating in the on-going Tizen Developer Conference for cross platform customizations.

So far we don't know whether that's actually a device that will be commercially available. It is possible that it only remains a developer's platform.

Source (http://www.tizen.gr/samsung-gt-i8800-redwood-s-voice-2572/)

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