Friday, 22 March 2013
Samsung made itself the brand to beat in the crowded smartphone space by backing Google's Android software -- 96 per cent of the South Korean company's shipments ran on the platform. Now, it's planning a high-end smartphone powered by Intel-backed open-source platform Tizen.
Growing competition from Samsung as a maker of high-end smartphones has already turned Apple from its most-valuable customer to an increasingly bitter rival. Samsung's efforts to lessen its reliance on Android by designing its own software Bada - 'the sea' in Korean - haven't yet produced a credible alternative. Nor have phones powered by Microsoft's OS.
The new phone, out as soon as August, is good news for those geeks and independent-minded consumers of the tech zone who are crying out for open-source gadgets. Maybe less so for Apple and Google , who face another, challenger in the battle to dominate the platform for global mobile communications.
