Samsung Z-The Tizen OS Powererd Smartphone by Samsung

Samsung, The Smartphone giant in this world recently launched their new smartphone which is powered by  Tizen Operating system. This smartphone is named as Samsung Z. The Samsung Z is going to be the first smartphone based on Tizen OS. Samsung is very keen of using Android Operating system on most of their smartphones, but at this time they used Tizen Operating system for this piece. This smartphone is going to show at Tizen developer conference on June 3rd.

Samsung Z smartphone
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Recently, Vice president of research at Samsung Pranav Mistry declared the launch of this Smartphone on Twitter.
Introducing Samsung Z - world’s first Tizen smartphone http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=37149 #tizen
pranav mistry(@pranavmistry) 12:53 AM - 2 Jun 2014

  • What is Tizen?
Tizen is the open source operating based on linux platform. The Tizen OS project resides within the governance of Linux foundation.
Samsung decided to use this open source operating system on their smartphone.
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Lets head towards the specifications of this Samsung Z.

  • Display:-
The Samsung Z comes with a large 4.9-inch screen  having  1280x720 Super AMOLED display. this display is good and can do your stuff on this large screen easily.
  • Processor and memory:-
The Samsung Z smartphone comes with a 2.3GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM for smooth operating of this phone, 16GB internal memory with micro SD card support and expandable upto 64 GB.
  • Camera:-
Samsung offered 8 megapixel rear camera and 2.1 megapixels of  front camera which fulfills the needs of basic smartphone users. but, Samsung disappointed with such low specifications of the camera.

  • Connectivity:-
Also, Samsung Z comes with  many connectivity options like 4G LTE, NFC, IR sensor, WiFi: 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS,  Bluetooth®: 4.0 and  USB 2.0.
  • Operating System:-
As said earlier, Samsung Z comes with Tizen Operating system. Reportedly, The device will run on 2.2.1 version of this operating system.


  • Additional Features:-
According to Samsung's official website, Samsung Z comes with a Fingerprint sensor at the Home button. Also, the devise is packed with Heart rate monitor settled at the back of this phone. Samsung also added Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer sensors in this device.
The Tizen operating system doesn't seem different from Android operating system of Google.  But Samsung promises of fast performance, high quality web browsing experience and easy multitasking.
Samsung is going to launch this phone in third quarter of this year in Russia. The price of Samsung Z is not revealed by samsung but this article will be Updated as the new info comes out.

Samsung Z Smartphone
Reviewed by Swaraj Nandedkar on
June 5 2014
Rating: 4.2
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