A few days back we saw the first preview of the Tizen OS running on a device which was a developer smartphone being handed out to developers.
Well now more information has emerged with some pictures and specifications of the smartphone.
The device is indeed a Samsung device thanks to the tie-up of Bada with Tizen. The smartphone has the model number GT-I9500 Fraser and has a round home/menu button just like the iPhone. The Tizen UI as we saw earlier looks a lot like Samsung’s TouchWiz UI and the features look a lot like Android.
The specifications of the device include:
- 4.65 inch Super AMOLED Plus HD dispaly (1280×720 resolution)
- 1.2GHz Samsung Exynos C210 Dual-core ARM Cortex A9
- 1GB RAM + 16GB eMMC
- 8MP Autofocus c camera with LED Flash and 2MP front camera
- MicroUSB, USB 2.0
- 3.5mm audio jack
- Bluetooth 4.0
- Wi-Fi a/b/g/n
- Dimensions: 153.9 x 76.36 x 14.8 mm
- 1750 mAh battery
- OS: SLP 2.0/Tizen 1.0 Larkspur
- Webkit browser
- GPS: A-GPS with Glonass
- Audio codecs: MP3, AAC, AAC+
- Video codecs: MPEG4, H263, H264
- AllShare Play
- NFC
- Kies Air (via Wi-Fi)
- Web (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, WebGL)
- SNS + Push Notification (Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Google, MSN, Picasa, YouYube, AOL)
This goes on to prove that Samsung will be launching smartphones with Tizen OS, and of course we will see smartphones with high-end specs.