In year 2013 Samsung launched Galaxy Gear smartwatch that was compatible to Android OS and its devices that are running Android OS. The company might soon come up with a new Galaxy Gear that’s compatible to OS other than Android.
According to a news report in Cnet, people who are familiar with the matter have said that, a new version of Samsung's Gear smartwatch will run the company's Tizen software instead of Google's Android operating system.
Sammy is expected to unveil its new Tizen OS based device at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona beginning in few days now. A compatible Galaxy Gear might appear at the event with the Tizen phone.Samsung since last two year has been looking at Tizen an an open source software and a good alternative to the Android OS. The company has been working on a new devices with the OS, and was rumoured to launch a phone in September 2013. Later Samsung informed that it will launch Tizen based phone in February 2014.
“It sounds like the platform is finally ready to make its big debut, though, as Tizen has sent out invitations to an event at Mobile World Congress on Feb. 23 at which the first devices running the new OS will be put on display” reported Phonedog in a December 2013 news report.
In the last week of January a Tizen based Samsung phone leaked via Moveplayer.net, offering a first glimpse of the new user interface. This new handset called the Samsung ZEQ9000 or Zeke is expected to be a 4.8 inch mobile device with 1280 x 720 pixels display resolution and a 2.3 GHz Snapdragon 800 processor underneath. The user interface seems inspired by Live Tile base Windows OS interface.
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