I've loved Android smartwatches since the original Moto 360, but I'm tired of making excuses for Wear OS's lackluster performance and Tizen's abysmal apps. Once upon a time, I thought maybe — just maybe — a Pixel Watch could be the smooth, well-supported Android watch of my dreams, but now I know better.
Samsung left Android Wear back in 2015 and never looked back, building Tizen to deliver the best smartwatches on the market. But Tizen's garden is small and its apps are limited, so if they come back to Wear OS, it could make the best watches for women unbeatable.
Smartwatches are still far from being a necessity for most people. However, Google and Samsung both offer a vision as to what a smartwatch can be and each hopes to convince you to buy one. Which is better though? It's about more than just what the watch looks like, and it's more complex than just strapping it on your wrist. Let's look at the differences to suss out which is tops for...
At the Samsung Developers Conference, the company announced developer-focused updates to its Tizen OS, including news that Tizen will be available for third-party TV makers.
Samsung's latest wearable comes with a ton of smarts, but how does it stand up against the Wear OS champion?
The Gear S3 and Gear Sport are two of the most powerful smartwatches around, and with the right apps, can be made even better.
While Samsung employees have been spotted wearing Gear watches powered by Wear OS, these aren't products coming to market any time soon.
Last year's Gear S3 is being updated to Tizen 3.0 with a refreshed UI, more intuitive fitness tracking, and additional productivity features.
A report from Motherboard is some very bad news for fans of Samsung's other operating system, Tizen.
Anyone who's following along with Samsung's Developer Conference is seeing a lot of the word "Tizen" around — but that doesn't automatically mean "not Android."
Samsung has announced the Tizen-powered Z3 in India, which expands the company's OS line-up with a new mid-range smartphone. What's more is the company has teamed up with MixRadio to pre-load the music service on the newly released handset in the region.
The first real, shipping Tizen phone is basic — very basic With the explosive success of Samsung's Galaxy line of Android phones, the Korean giant's symbiotic relationship with Google has been the subject of much speculation within the mobile industry. Just as Samsung is reliant on Google for the software behind its smartphones, Google's services are viewed by many users through the...
Samsung's first Tizen phone ships with Google Search and YouTube apps, and Google as its default search engine Following delays of over a year, Samsung finally shipped its first Tizen-powered handset, the Z1, earlier this month in India. The arrival of Tizen on smartphones — remember it's been on Samsung's Gear smartwatches for almost a year now — has been a long time coming, and there...
After tinkering around with their custom Tizen operating system for the past several months, Samsung is making it official: all of their new smart TVs in 2015 will run Tizen. Samsung showed off their first Tizen-powered TV set back in June and pushed out a Tizen TV apps SDK in July, and now CES 2015 will bring us our first real life look at the new OS in action. Samsung's Tizen OS...
Samsung has announced that U.S. owners of the Galaxy Gear smartwatch now have the option to switch their operating system from Android to Tizen. While Samsung started a global rollout of this option in May, the company is now officially allowing this switch to happen in the US. An FAQ page on Samsung's website has more details on the smartwatch's new features when the move to Tizen...
Samsung has today finally announced its very first Tizen powered smartphone, the Samsung Z. Headed to Russia in Q3 2014 before expanding to other markets, the Samsung Z marries decent sounding hardware with features – both hardware and software – seen elsewhere on its Galaxy Android powered devices. Powering the show is a 2.3GHz quad-core CPU backed up by 2GB of RAM and 16GB of...
According to the Wall Street Journal, Samsung is getting ready to launch its first Tizen-based smartphones in Russia in the coming weeks. Samsung announced last month that it would launch two Tizen handsets this quarter, and that they will be targeted at emerging markets. Samsung is looking to formally launch the Tizen smartphone in an "Unpacked" event in Moscow, according to the...
Samsung's first Tizen powered smartphones are set to hit the market in Q2 of this year according to a report by Reuters. Yoon Han-kil, senior vice president of Samsung's product strategy team, said that the first phone to launch around the end of the second quarter will be a high end model, with the next a more mid-range effort. He also said that "Android still needs to be our main...
Things have changed behind the familiar faces, but does that really matter? Samsung has announced their new wearables this evening, and one of the bullet points stands out a bit more than the others. Both the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo are running Tizen — an open-source operating system developed in part by Samsung. This brings up a lot of contreversy from Android faithful — the original...