Tizen 3.0 OS Update Features Revealed By Samsung At Developer Summit In Korea

Samsung and Intel have been developing Tizen - the mobile operating system for quite some time now. At the At the Developer Summit in Seoul, Korea, Samsung revealed the Tizen 3.0 OS features. It was also brought to the light that Tizen 2.2.1, the older version of the mobile OS also gets features like privacy control and system framework including option to install the apps in the SD card and firmware download support for USB.org framework test tool and Mac OS X. If we look at the history of Tizen, it was born out of Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo and after getting together with Samsung's Bada OS in February 2013 - the open source mobile operating system really became popular.' Till date it is only the Samsung's NX300M smart camera that runs the Tizen OS and it available only in Korea.

Though not the actual Tizen 3.0 was shown, we now have the features that we can look forward to with the update. So from what's hot - we see that the Tizen 3.0 gets an Updated Core and ToolChain. The upcoming version of Tizen will get multiple user support. Among the slides that were shown at the Summit, it was shown that the there will be 64-bit architecture support on the update. Enthusiasts should note that the Apple iPhone 5s and iPad Air both feature the 64-bit chips. Coming with IA and ARM chips, performance improvements, larger memory address space and more, there's a lot under the wraps with the Tizen OS. Well, a rather interesting feature that was unveiled is that Tizen update comes with 3D UI framework, 3D Rendering Engine for 2D and 3D Objects in the real world and Dynamic Animation Library. There will be support for WayLand based compositor and a Crosswalk - HTML5 based application runtime based on Chromium / Blink.

The Tizen 3.0 release date is still far away though. The expected date will only be in Q3 2014. And even though there are rumors of a February 2014 launch for the Tizen smartphone, we don't have an official word about it either. Some reports suggest that Samsung will be announcing a Tizen Mobile Lite version designed especially to work on the low-end smartphones. This Lite OS will require a minimum of 256MB of RAM, 512MB ROM, and HVGA or QVGA displays to run.

We are really excited about the 2014 launches from Samsung. Do you think that the Tizen OS will become a worthy competitor to Google's Android and Apple's iOS? We really look forward to your opinions on the Tizen 3.0 features - share them in the comments.