According to a report of The Economics Times, "Samsung, world's No 1 Smartphone maker will start selling Tizen operating system based Smartphone’s this year". Samsung stated, "We plan to release new, competitive Tizen devices within this year and will keep expanding the line-up depending on market conditions". Although, no information regarding the devices have been disclosed by the South Korea based company. Samsung is planning to be making more devices with Tizen operating system in order to decrease its dependency on Google's Android operating system. Previously, a prototype of Samsung Galaxy SIII look-a-like handset with Tizen operating system had been spotted on the web. Samsung is also working on merging its Bada mobile operating system with Tizen, an open Linux based operating system which is capable of working across various platforms. Initially, Tizen was born out of the Samsung Linux Project and has full functionality of a mobile OS which is quite similar to the Bada as both are Linux based. The Tizen operating system integrated modules from the Nokia led MeeGo project which was once being led by Intel. But currently the Tizen OS is being led together by both Intel and Samsung.

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The most popular browser for mobile phone is Opera Mini which is now available on yet another platform. Now this free web browser is available at the Samsung Applications, official Bada application repository. It has the capability to support all Bada devices, running version 2.0 or later of the OS. 6.5.11 is the initial version number of Opera Mini for Bada. This Opera Mini version decreases the data costs by reducing your data traffic up to 90% using server-side compression of web pages. Over 168 million people across a number of platforms are currently using this web browser.

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We may still have a week to buy the flowers, chocolates and cards, but Samsung are giving their Valentine’s gifts out early. Ahead of Valentine’s Day (February 14th), Samsung Bada and Android users are entitled to a number of paid apps, for free!

Samsung are celebrating Valentine’s Day a week early and offering up some interactive good will, with a $5 app voucher to many of their users (providing they use a device with the correct OS). To check which devices and apps qualify for the freebie treatment, head on over to the Samsung Apps website and choose your favorites right now, Happy early Valentine’s Day.

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Samsung has announced its plans to merge its homegrown smartphone OS - Bada - with the Linux-based Tizen, which was recently created in collaboration with Intel. Launched back in 2010, Bada was meant to feature on Samsung's low-end touchscreen phones. Compared to the feature phone OS found on these phones, Bada was much better because it had an improved user interface and smartphone features such as proper multitasking and native third party application installation through Samsung's own application store. Now, however, with Samsung starting work on Tizen, it makes little sense to keep both the operating systems existing simultaneously. Then there is also the fact that Samsung has Android and Windows Phone devices as well.

So starting this year, Bada will be merged into Tizen and as such, will cease to exist on its own, outside of the devices that are currently running it. Samsung has said that the current Bada applications and the SDK will be backward compatible with the new OS. No mention of whether the current devices will be upgraded to Tizen, although we wouldn't hold our breath for that. Samsung has also mentioned that they will be launching one or two Tizen phones this year.

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