Samsung still loves its home-grown operating system. A report from Reuters says the company is planning more Tizen phones for 2015, and they'll come in at "varying prices."
Samsung's existing Tizen smartphone lineup consists of one device: The $92 Samsung Z1. The phone launched in January 2015, and since then it has sold over a million units. Apparently, the Z1 was even the best-selling smartphone in Bangladesh.
We reviewed the Samsung Z1 a few months ago, and we can say that those million users are getting a terrible smartphone experience. Tizen has very few apps, and it makes a lot of weird UI decisions (like home screen pages that won't display apps, only widgets). Worst of all, Tizen feels like a cheap knockoff of an old version of Android. Android is free, and the base platform is open source, so if you aren't going to do something different, don't bother. "Cloning" an open source product is a waste of time.
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