Tizen () is a

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-based

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backed by the Linux Foundation, mainly developed and used primarily by

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. The project was originally conceived as an

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-based platform for mobile devices to succeed

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. Samsung merged its previous Linux-based OS effort,

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, into Tizen, and has since used it primarily on platforms such as wearable devices and

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s. Much of Tizen is

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, although the

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contains proprietary components owned by Samsung, and portions of the OS are licensed under the

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, a derivative of the Apache License 2.0 that grants a patent license only to "Tizen certified platforms". In May 2021,

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announced that

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would partner with the company on integrating Tizen features with its Android-derived Wear OS, and committed to use it on future wearables, leaving Tizen to be mainly developed for Samsung Smart TV.

History

The project was initiated as

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and was launched by

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in July 2007, in April 2009 the operating system had managed to updated to version 2.0 which the core was based on Fedora. However, on the same month, Intel turned Moblin over to the Linux Foundation for future development. Eventually, the operating system was merged with

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, a Debian based Linux distro, into

which mainly developed by Nokia, Intel and Linux Foundation. In 2011, after Nokia abandoned the project, Linux Foundation initiate the Tizen project as a successor to MeeGo, another Linux-based mobile operating system, with its main backer

joining

, as well as Access Co., NEC Casio, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile,

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, and

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as commercial partners. Tizen would be designed to use

apps, and target mobile and embedded platforms such as netbooks, smartphones, tablets,

s, and

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systems. U.S. carrier

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(which was a backer of MeeGo) joined the Tizen Association in May 2012. On September 16, 2012,

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announced its intent to use Tizen as the basis of its reference distribution. In January 2013, Samsung announced its intent to release multiple Tizen-based phones that year. In February 2013, Samsung merged its

operating system into Tizen. In October 2013, the first Tizen tablet was shipped by Systena. The tablet was part of a development kit exclusive to Japan. In 2014, Samsung released the Gear 2

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that used a Tizen-based operating system as opposed to Android. On May 14, 2014, it was announced that Tizen would ship with Qt. This project was abandoned in January 2017. On February 21, 2016, Samsung announced the Samsung Connect Auto, a

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solution offering diagnostic,

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, and other car-connected services. The device plugs directly into the

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port underneath the steering wheel. On November 16, 2016, Samsung said they would be collaborating with Microsoft to bring

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support to Tizen. According to Strategy Analytics research, approximately 21% of the smart TVs sold in 2018 run on the Tizen platform making it the most popular smart TV platform. On May 19, 2021, during

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, Google announced that Samsung had agreed to work on integrating features of Tizen with the next version of Wear OS, and that it had committed to using Wear OS for its future wearable products. Samsung will continue to use Tizen for its smart TVs. On December 31, 2021, the Tizen app store permanently closed. The last smartphone based on the Tizen operating system is the

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which was released in 2017. The company switched to Google's Wear OS 3 platform on its Galaxy Watch 4 smartwatches.

Releases

* Tizen 1.0: April 30, 2012 * Tizen 2.0: February 18, 2013 * Tizen 2.1: May 18, 2013 * Tizen 2.2: July 22, 2013 ** Tizen 2.2.1: November 9, 2013 * Tizen 2.3: February 9, 2015 ** Tizen 2.3.1: September 3, 2015 *** Tizen 2.3.1 Rev1: November 13, 2015 ** Tizen 2.3.2: September 3, 2016 *** Tizen 2.3.2 Patch: December 23, 2016 * Tizen 2.4: October 30, 2015 ** Tizen 2.4 Rev1: December 1, 2015 ** Tizen 2.4 Rev2: December 23, 2015 ** Tizen 2.4 Rev3: February 5, 2016 ** Tizen 2.4 Rev4: March 4, 2016 ** Tizen 2.4 Rev5: April 4, 2016 ** Tizen 2.4 Rev6: May 19, 2016 ** Tizen 2.4 Rev7: June 30, 2016 ** Tizen 2.4 Rev8: August 2, 2016 * Tizen 3.0: January 18, 2017 ** Tizen IVI 3.0 (In-Vehicle Infotainment): April 22, 2014 ** Tizen 3.0 Milestones (M1): September 17, 2015 ** Tizen 3.0 Public M2: January 18, 2017 ** Tizen 3.0 Public M3: July 5, 2017 ** Tizen 3.0 Public M4: November 30, 2017 * Tizen 4.0: May 31, 2017 ** Tizen 4.0 Public M1: May 31, 2017 ** Tizen 4.0 Public M2: November 1, 2017 ** Tizen 4.0 Public M3: August 31, 2018 * Tizen 5.0: May 31, 2018 ** Tizen 5.0 Public M1: May 31, 2018 ** Tizen 5.0 Public M2: October 30, 2018 * Tizen 5.5: May 31, 2019 ** Tizen 5.5 Public M1: May 31, 2019 ** Tizen 5.5 Public M2: October 30, 2019 ** Tizen 5.5 Public M3: August 27, 2020 * Tizen 6.0: May 31, 2020 ** Tizen 6.0 Public M1: May 31, 2020 ** Tizen 6.0 Public M2: October 27, 2020 * Tizen 6.5: May 31, 2021 ** Tizen 6.5 Public M1: May 31, 2021 ** Tizen 6.5 Public M2: October 31, 2021 * Tizen 7.0: May 31, 2022 ** Tizen 7.0 Public M1: May 31, 2022 ** Tizen 7.0 Public M2: October 31, 2022

Compatible devices

Smartwatch

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Samsung Gear S Samsung Gear S is a smartwatch designed and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It was announced on August 28, 2014, as the successor to the Samsung Gear 2 and was released on November 7, 2014. The smartwatch can be modified to run Android 5.1.1 or ...

Samsung Gear S2 The Samsung Gear S2 is a smartwatch developed by Samsung Electronics running Samsung's Tizen operating system. It was unveiled at IFA IFA or Ifa may refer to: Organisations Economics * Independent financial adviser, a type of financial servic ...

Samsung Gear S3 The Samsung Gear S3 is a Tizen-based circular smartwatch developed by Samsung Electronics. It was released on 18 November 2016. There are two models of the Gear S3, Classic and Frontier. The Classic has a silver watch case and black leather ban ...

Samsung Gear 2 The Samsung Gear 2 and Samsung Gear 2 Neo are smartwatches produced by Samsung Electronics. Unveiled on February 22, 2014 at Mobile World Congress, the Gear 2 line is a successor to the Samsung Galaxy Gear. In comparison to the Galaxy Gear, the ...

Samsung Gear Fit 2 The Samsung Gear Fit2 is a fitness smartwatch made by Samsung Electronics. The product is made in China. Unveiled in June 2016, the Gear Fit2 is the successor to the Samsung Gear Fit released in 2014. Compared to the Gear Fit the new wristband ...

* Samsung Gear Fit 2 Pro *

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Samsung Galaxy Watch The Samsung Galaxy Watch is a smartwatch developed by Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Y ...

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active is a smartwatch developed by Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational electronics corporation headquartered i ...

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 (stylized as Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2) is a smartwatch developed by Samsung Electronics, running the Tizen Tizen () is a Linux-based mobile operating system backed by the Linux Foundation, mainly develop ...

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 (stylized as Samsung Galaxy Watch3) is a smartwatch developed by Samsung Electronics that was released on August 5, 2020 at Samsung's Unpacked Event alongside the flagships of the Galaxy Note series and Galaxy Z series, ...

Camera

Samsung NX200 The Samsung NX200 is a 20.3 effective megapixel APS-C crop CMOS mirrorless interchangeable lens digital camera made by Samsung. It was announced on September 1, 2011. Changes from NX100 * Higher resolution movies. 1080p @ 30fps vs 720p @ 30fp ...

* Samsung NX300 * Samsung NX1

Smartphone

* Samsung Z *

Samsung Z1 The Samsung Z1 is a smartphone created by Samsung Electronics. It was the first phone to use the Tizen operating system. It was released in India in January 2015, Bangladesh in February 2015 and Sri Lanka in May 2015. The phone was succeeded by ...

* Samsung Z2 * Samsung Z3 *

Television

* Samsung Smart TVs since 2015

Appliances

* Family Hub 3.0 Refrigerator

LED Wall controllers

* SBB-SNOWJ3U

Controversies

On April 3, 2017, ''Vice'' reported on its "Motherboard" website that Amihai Neiderman, an Israeli security expert, has found more than 40 zero-day vulnerabilities in Tizen's code, allowing hackers to remotely access a wide variety of current Samsung products running Tizen, such as Smart TVs and mobile phones. After the article was published, Samsung, whom Neiderman tried to contact months before, reached out to him to inquire about his allegations.

References

External links

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Comprehensive list of Tizen devices
detailed and incomplete list of devices that run Tizen {{Samsung Electronics 2012 software ARM Linux distributions ARM operating systems Embedded Linux distributions Embedded operating systems Free mobile software IA-32 Linux distributions Intel software Linux distributions Linux Foundation projects Mobile Linux Mobile operating systems RPM-based Linux distributions Samsung Electronics Samsung software Smart TV Smartphones South Korean brands Tablet operating systems