Samsung has been working on Tizen for a long time, in order to break away from its dependence on Android and have its own ecosystem that it can offer across a range of products, including smartphones, TVs, cars and more. After numerous delays, the Korean manufacturer finally managed to launch a phone running Tizen in the market. This phone is the Samsung Z1, which went on sale in India earlier this month. Unlike what was earlier expected, Samsung decided to debut Tizen on a budget smartphone – at $90 (INR 5,700), it’s a considerably low-cost phone that breaks away from the usual norm and offers better hardware than existing smartphones from the company.
But the phone itself is not the star here. It’s Tizen, an operating system many thought was almost becoming vaporware thanks to the delays. We have been using the Samsung Z1 for a week or so, and here’s what we think about the spearheader of Samsung’s ambitious OS.
Design
As we said in our hands-on preview, the Z1 looks a lot like Samsung’s low-end Android phones, thanks to the overall shape and the placement of navigation buttons. It’s a rectangular slab with an unassuming design. At the front, you have the Samsung and DUOS logos above the display, along with the speaker grille and front-facing camera. Below the display, there’s a menu button, followed by a small physical home button, and a back key. The home button is oddly shaped: it’s a square instead of the rectangular home button we see on Samsung’s Android phones, making it a bit too tiny sometimes when you’re using the phone.
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