Tizen Mobile OS
The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of its Tizen operating system aimed at smartphones, tablets, netbooks, and mobile devices in general. The Linux Foundation is to host the project, but Tizen will be led by Intel and Samsung.
Previously Intel was supporting MeeGo Linux, but the MeeGo enterprise may be wound up, now that there’s even a post on the MeeGo website encouraging developers to make the transition to Tizen…
The MeeGo project launched around eighteen months ago when Intel and Nokia teamed up and merged the Intel’s Moblin Linux platform for netbooks and Nokia’s Maemo Linux platform for smartphones. The first Nokia device running MeeGo was only introduced this summer — and the Nokia N9 will be the last smartphone featuring MeeGo, because Nokia has changed tack and will now team up with Microsoft to produce Windows Phone 7 devices.
Asus launched one of the first netbooks carrying MeeGo Linux a few weeks ago, so their Eee PC X101 is a $200 laptop running a doomed operating system.
The new OS will focus on browser technologies like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, which should mean a bare bones operating system optimized for mobile browsing, which should simplify the development process, leading to better uptake amongst the development community, and hopefully preventing Tizen from going the same way as Meego and webOS.
Intel has already announced that its AppUp Center app store will support Tizen, providing end users with a central location to buy and download third party apps.
Tizen is expected to debut in Q1 of 2012, and a software development kit will be made available at the same time.
With Apple iOS and Google Android dominating the smartphone and tablet space, and Microsoft planning to gatecrash their party with its Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows 8 platforms, observers are keen to see if an open source platform nurtured by a group of companies rather than by one single big name can make inroads into the mobile market.
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