The new OS "Tizen" promoted by Samsung appeared as a poor copy of Android

Technology related news siteArs Technica, The world's first smartphone with Tizen OS released by Samsung in India and Bangladesh "Samsung Z1Posted a review of. In conclusion, "Tizen has no new challenge, it is a poor copy of Android" giving a rating.

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◆ Samsung Z1's appearance & specifications
This is the world's first Tizen equipped smartphone finally releasedSamsung Z1". The SoC is a Spreadtrum SC7727S (1.2 GHz dual core), memory is 768 MB, storage is 4 GB, 4 inch liquid crystal display (800 × 480) with good viewing angle is mounted Weighs about 112 g.


The back panel is made of plastic. The rear camera with LED flash is 3.1 million pixels.


The Samsung Z1 is dual SIM compatible, with a battery capacity of 1500 mAh.


The thickness is 9.7 mm and it is slightly thick for the latest smartphone.


3G is B1 (2100 MHz), B8 (900 MHz) is not compatible with LTE. The selling price in India is 5700 rupees (about 11,000 yen).


◆ Contents of the review
Tzen's smartphone operating Samsung Z1 looks like this. It can be confirmed that it moves more crisply than expected.


· Basic operation button
Ron Amadio of Ars Technica who reviewed Samsung Z1 said that Samsung has placed icons such as "menu", "home", "back" at the bottom of the screen of the smartphone as well as Android OS in Tizen OS, "Android I am committing the same mistake as I am. " The reason is that these three buttons increase the number of pages and functions hidden in the background that do not appear on the screen, which is not intuitive and difficult to use. Compared to the simplicity of iOS which restricted the home button to one, Amadio seems to evaluate if Android's basic button itself is too complicated, Tizen purposely manages the bad part of Android and can not evaluate That's it.


·home screen
The right is Tizen OS of Samsung Z1, the left is Galaxy S2 of 2011 release. Tizen is pretty simple.


The home screen has space to place the widget at the top, and the widget can be scrolled left and right to change the display. Below the widget, 8 layouts of 2 rows of dock icons are adopted. However, in addition to the fact that you can not put an application in the widget area, it occupies the majority of the screen, and as you can see in the image in the center at the bottom, you can only arrange two widgets at maximum, It is said that stress is strongly demanded because it is few. Up to 8 applications can be placed in the dock, too, although appealing apps are relatively too little Tizen, though Amadio points out that it is not possible to place many applications.


· Display application history
You can display the history of the application by holding down the Home button for a long time. However, Mr. Amadio is a harsh evaluation that employing an operation that takes time to "push long" is a penalty material as impairing comfortable operation. It is rather difficult to take a low evaluation by changing the operation method all the way from Android.


· Locking method
There is no unlocking method by way of pattern authentication like Android only with swipe, PIN code, password for canceling the lock screen.


· Quick setting
It is the same as Android that you can pull out the quick setting screen from the upper edge of the screen, but the operation seems to be choked. Furthermore, it seems that the blue base screen sometimes flickers when scrolling.


· Apps
The part that will become the biggest key point of Tizen is "little application." Considering that Windows Phone and Fire Phone, which are inferior in number of applications to iOS and Android already having more than 1 million applications, are being forced to struggle, just starting and most of the app developers There is not a small number of Tizen apps out of the box. Amadio said, "As we provide and promote the platform, Samsung should actively develop applications and demonstrate leadership."


· Samsung account
All settings and data of Samsung Z1 are backed up and synchronized with "Samsung account", and Gmail and Dropbox etc are also supported. However, be aware that Samsung accounts will not sync Gmail and Dropbox only once per hour. Although Tizen should support the push notification API, it is bizarre that Samsung Z1 is not compliant with push notifications, Amadio said.


· Camera performance
The 3.2 megapixel rear camera can not be said to be high-performance even in flattery, but the camera application has white balance adjustment function and face recognition function.


However, the picture quality is not so bad for other smartphones. This is a picture taken by Samsung Z1.


Pictures taken with Nexus 5. The difference in image quality is clear.


On the other hand, this is a smartphone of 64 thousand rupees (about 12,000 yen)Micromax Canvas A1Photograph taken by. "Samsung Z1 is a low-priced smartphone, so excuses that it can not be helped even if picture quality is bad" can not pass.


· Benchmark results
This is a JavaScript benchmark software "SunSpider 1.0.2Test result by. The shorter the graph, the better the performance, the Samsung Z1 is doing well in low price smartphones.


However, Mozilla's JavaScript benchmark software "Kraken"To a completely different result. Perhaps Samsung often do "Strategic tuningIt may be due to ... ....


Samsung discovered that it increased the benchmark result of GALAXY Note 3 by 20% - GIGAZINE


· Others
It is quite mysterious that various notices such as antenna pict, watch, battery remaining amount disappear from the screen when using the calculator application. Amadio evaluates that "If you are playing the game you do not know, you do not know the meaning of attentiveness to make you immerse in a calculator app."


·wallpaper
Mr. Amadio is the only Indian flag color wallpaper "Republic Day" that he evaluated as practical and well made. When it is Republic Day, Indian holidays will be displayed on the lock screen.


Initially, it is a Tizen smartphone that switched to a strategy of focusing on emerging countries such as India, targeted for low-cost routes, which is different from what Samsung announced as "to send it to the world as a high-function, high-priced premium terminal". But already in Indian market Google low-priced smartphone "Android OneSeries and the fastest growing smartphone maker in the world, and is stealing away from Samsung's low-priced smartphone lineXiaomi(Small U.S. Giken) Has already advanced, the later Tizen smartphone is expected to struggle in a fierce market.