Tizen () is a

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-based

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backed by the

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, mainly developed and used primarily by

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. The project was originally conceived as an HTML5-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 smart TVs. 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 Flora License, 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

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-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 mobile Linux 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

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. However, on the same month, Intel turned Moblin over to the

for future development. Eventually, the operating system was merged with

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, a

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based Linux distro, into

which mainly developed by Nokia, Intel and Linux Foundation. In 2011, after Nokia abandoned the project,

initiate the Tizen project as a successor to MeeGo, another Linux-based mobile operating system, with its main backer

joining

, as well as

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, and

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as commercial partners. Tizen would be designed to use HTML5 apps, and target mobile and embedded platforms such as

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s, smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and in-car entertainment 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, Automotive Grade Linux 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

. 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 connected car solution offering diagnostic,

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, and other car-connected services. The device plugs directly into the OBD-II 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 Google I/O, 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

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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

* Samsung Galaxy Gear * Samsung Gear S * Samsung Gear S2 * Samsung Gear S3 * Samsung Gear 2 *

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* Samsung Galaxy Watch * Samsung Galaxy Watch Active * Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 * Samsung Galaxy Watch 3

Camera

* Samsung NX200 * Samsung NX300 *

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Smartphone

Samsung Z Tizen () is a Linux-based mobile operating system backed by the Linux Foundation, mainly developed and used primarily by Samsung Electronics. The project was originally conceived as an HTML5-based platform for mobile devices to succeed MeeGo. Sa ...

* Samsung Z1 *

Samsung Z2 Samsung Z2 is a smartphone produced by Samsung. It is the third smartphone to be shipped with the Tizen operating system, after the Samsung Z1 and Samsung Z3. It was released on August 29, 2016. Its successor the Samsung Z4 was released in May 2 ...

Samsung Z3 The Samsung Z3 is a smartphone produced by Samsung. It is the second smartphone to be shipped with the Tizen operating system (after the Samsung Z1). The phone was released on October 21, 2015. The phone was succeeded by the Samsung Z2 Samsung ...

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

*
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