Samsung chief says it is too early for a Tizen smartphone

Tizen, the new smartphone software developed by a worldwide association to vie against the likes of Google's humanoid and Apple's iOS, would possibly still be off from powering a billboard smartphone.

ZDNet Korean Peninsula in an exceedingly report has quoted Samsung's JK Shin, President and Head of IT and Mobile Communications Division WHO same, "It is just too early for a smartphone with Tizen."

Shin claimed that the key barrier in pushing the Tizen platform is that the lack of apps. The report notes that the South Korean manufacturer has been Associate in Nursing attempt|attempting} to woo developers to require an interest within the Tizen platform, however it's been a failure once competitive  against the likes of humanoid and iOS. Shin additional accessorial, "There area unit still things that require to be mature (before we tend to launch)."

The report conjointly quoted Lee Young Hee, govt vice chairman of the Samsung's mobile business WHO same, "Many believe that Tizen is associate degree OS for smartphones however it's optimized for alternative devices also. we are going to use Tizen in TVs within the close to future."

Notably, Samsung ditched humanoid and launched Tizen-based Gear two and equipment two modern smartwatches at the MWC 2014.

It's value declaring that the japanese mobile carrier, NTT Docomo, conjointly confirmed that it might not be cathartic any smartphone in 2014 running Tizen OS.

The reason behind the Docomo cancellation is alleged to be the inappropriate temporal order for the Tizen-based smartphone's unharness. A representative additional accessorial that the smartphone sales haven't exaggerated considerably within the past year, and same that Japan wasn't prepared for 3 completely different OSes for currently

The Tizen association includes giants like Intel, Fujitsu, Samsung, LG, Huawei, and European mobile carriers Vodafone and Orange.

While we're still expecting the primary Tizen-powered mobile phones and tablets, Samsung proclaimed the primary Tizen-based device, the NFC and Wi-Fi enabled mirrorless NX300M camera, in Gregorian calendar month last year.