Samsung Electronics today announced a partnership with leading international ODM (Original Development Manufacturing) companies such as Atmaca, HKC and Tempo — a collaboration that will enable non-Samsung smart TV models to use Tizen OS for the first time. New TVs from Bauhn, Linsar, Sunny, Vispera and other brands will be available in Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Türkiye and the United Kingdom this year, allowing more consumers to enjoy a premium smart TV experience enabled by Tizen, an open source OS for Samsung Smart TV.
Tizen was, at one point, going to kill Android.
I don’t know about the others but Sunny (in Turkey) is a brand that rose up as an imitation of Sony, and is the cheapest of the lot, being sold mostly at discount supermarkets.
So Tizen is dead.
Good riddance I can say, having fought enough with my samsung tv’s sloooooooooowwww interface.
Have Samsung announced they are going to stop using Tizen? I didn’t see that news.
I guess he assumes that Samsung giving Tizen away to other manufacturers means they no longer considered it as a competitive advantage, and they are getting something else ready for their own use. Hence it’s dead.
There’s of course many other ways to read this.
Important to note that manufacturers use a variety of processing hardware so the experience can be absolutely Shthouse on low end displays with the same OS. For example some LG displays work great, the Aldi displays are dreadfully laggy, same OS.
We need benchmarks!
“Tizen was, at one point, going to kill Android.”
What TV brands use Android today? Samsung uses Tizen. LG uses WebOS. A bunch of people use Roku. You do not see Fire much which I assume is really just reskinned Android anyway.
I am no expert by any means so this may mean nothing but I cannot think of a major brand that is Android. I am sure it leads by numbers as it is likely the Go To for brands that have no ecosystem of their own or grand designs on capturing their audience. If that is the case though, it makes sense that there would be a lot of opportunity for Tizen if it was also available to these manufacturers.
This by no means guarantees Tizen’s success but it does seem like a smart move to me. Tizen is not going to “kill Android” in general but, if I was the Tizen Product Manager at Samsung, I might still have “dominate Android in the Smart TV space” as a stretch goal.
Sony TVs use the Google TV platform (the Android based one). There are also a bunch of budget brands that seem to use one of Roku, Fire, or Google TV at random.
I haven’t used Tizen before, but out of the other 3, I prefer Roku. I don’t really like WebOS, as it’s overly complicated, and full of pointless ads. And that stupid waggle cursor… But its native apps perform better on my LG C1 OLED than the attached Roku in picture and sound quality. If those apps didn’t crash so much (HBO in particular)… (Specifically, the Roku keeps getting in to a state where the picture is so dim, I can’t make anything out – and just accessing LG settings pulls it back to the right range. I have everything tuned for accuracy, with almost no post processing enabled. I’m sure this is not the Roku’s doing, but LG’s…)