Samsung Tizen Smartphone: To be Launched in India

By Aishwarya Sep 20, 2014 08:21 AM EDT

Samsung Tizen Smartphone: To be Launched in India Around Diwali Time

Samsung was about to launch Tizen on July but due to some technical difficulties the big giant stepped backward. But the comeback of the anticipated smartphone Tizen will be launched in November in India as confirmed by The Economic Time of India.

Samsung SmartWatch was launched last month, which was operated by the Tizen OS and now the time comes when Tizen will be used in smartphone which will carry the model no. of SM-Z130. Phone arena announced that the price of the unlocked version of the smartphone will be around $200.

Sammobile is very hopeful about launching of the smartphone in India since the country stands as the world's second most popular country of smartphone transactions in volume. So Sammobile has decided to launch the Tizen in India to grab the powerful mid-range smartphone market.

Samsung Z is named to be the first Tizen operated smartphone, which is 4.8-inches in display along with 720p HD AMOLED configuration. Two models having Titan as operating system are expected to be launched in November during the Diwali and the models are SM-Z130E and SM-Z130H.

These smartphones have already reached India because of testing purposes. So if everything goes plan wise, very soon fans can expect to get these handsets. Though the time frame of the releasing date has been announced but the configuration or hardware specification has not been cleared by the company.

The answer to the question why Samsung choose India to launch Tizen operated smartphones in India lies between the statistics of the economic growth of the smartphone market of India. There are 44 million smartphones sold last year by the Indian market alone. In a comment to the paper Tarun Malik, Samsung's media chief, announced that Samsung started late across the Indian market but they are working hard and are very much hopeful. But the question is, in spite of being the top smartphone maker in India, will Tizen be able to compete against Lumia or Sony's Xperia? Since recently, Nokia Lumia has very largely dominated the mid range smartphone market in India.