Samsung to release first Tizen smartphone in August or September

With all the buzz surrounding the Galaxy S4, it's easy to forget that Samsung has been pushing for the development of Tizen OS that will compete against Android. The world’s largest smartphone maker is planning an August release for the first phone powered by the open-source Tizen OS. Bloomberg quoted a Samsung high-level executive who spilled the beans on the development. “The Tizen phone will be out in August or September, and this will be in the high-end category,” Lee Young Hee, Executive Vice President-Mobile business, Samsung’s said. “The device will be the best product equipped with the best specifications.”

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