Could this be the Samsung’s next big thing? Tizen based Developer Smartphone

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It was looking stunning, a black beauty, slim and lite weight! Sorry, No imaginations! I am talking about the Samsung’s Tizen based smartphone, which I happened to witness during Tizen DevLab Workshop organized in Vodafone Services India Pvt. Ltd. It was told by the developers from Samsung, that the device was meant only for the development purpose and of course, I could confirm it by the model name (Ref.Device-PQ). The smartphone was running latest version of Tizen (2.2.0) operating system.

The device took a while to boot. And the lockscreen was just like Galaxy devices saying “Life Magazine” instead of Life Companion as found in S4. Simple left to right swipe unlocked the device and took me to the home screen, which looked lot similar to the Android Home screen. The touch was pretty good, as I could not see any lag in the response. The other specifications are not known.

Samsung Tizen smartphone took a while to boot
Samsung Tizen smartphone took a while to boot
The device looked lot slimmer and flat
The device looked lot slimmer and flat

 

Samsung Tizen OS
The Lockscreen titled “Life Magazine” was similar to the one seen in Galaxy S4 (It had Life Companion instead)
Samsung Tizen
The Home Screen was similar to Android.

Samsung Tizen
Long Press on the Home button revealed the “Task Switcher”
Samsung Tizen
Powered by the Tizen 2.2.0 operating system. The model was specific to the developer testing with the name as Ref.Device-PQ

Recently Samsung announced its first Tizen based Mirrorless camera. According to the reports, the first Tizen Smartphone might hit stores during the first quarter of 2014 (the earlier rumors hinted that the device might release in 2013).

Checkout the video below,

Read: What I learnt from Tizen DevLab Workshop in Bangalore

Well, could Tizen be the Samsung’s Next Big thing? Let us know your comments.