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Samsung wants to make more Tizen phones for India

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Channel: Digit · 2015 · Science & Technology

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Samsung plans to incorporate its Tizen operating system into more smartphones later this year, according to a report by Reuters. As of now, Samsung uses Tizen to power the Z1 smartphone, smartwatches and high end television sets. 

The first smartphone in India on the Tizen platform was the Samsung Z1, launched this January. Reports state that Samsung has sold one million units of the Z1 in India, and it has also been popular in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. In a recent report by research agency Counterpoint, the Tizen-powered Samsung Z1 was the best-selling smartphone in Bangladesh (as reported by The Financial Express).

With the Snapdragon 820, Qualcomm will go back to its custom designed Kryo cores, instead of using the stock ARM cores that it used in the 810. Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple and Huawei are just about the only companies making custom-designed cores.

Related: MWC 2015: Qualcomm reveals Snapdragon 820 SoC & fingerprint scanner

From the Geekbench tests, it seems that Qualcomm has gone back to four 64-bit cores clocked at 3GHz, and these cores can scale up and down efficiently depending on load. This alone can help mitigate the overheating issues that plagued the poorly implemented octa-core 810. It will be built on an efficient 14nm manufacturing process, currently Samsung and Intel are the only other chip-maker with a 14nm manufacturing process, which can improve running efficiency.

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