Tizen Association adds 15 new partners to 36 existing partners
It has been a hard and long journey for Tizen, an open source platform and operating system. Though Tizen was formed few years ago, we haven’t seen a smartphone powered by Tizen OS. Only significatn development was two Samsung smart cameras powered by Tizen based firmware. Back in November 2013, Tizen founding partners created “Tizen Association”, initially adding 36 members and this week, raked in 15 new partners (ZTE, Sprint, Baidu and Softbank being most prominent), taking tally to nearly 50. We hope that soon, we will see a smartphone powered by Tizen OS, something that is delayed a bit too long.
“Tizen allows vendors and operators the freedom and flexibility to decide what type of service is best provided to the end-users,” said Ryoichi Sugimura, a Tizen Association Board Member from NTT DOCOMO. “We are gaining support from all segments of the connected device ecosystem, as more organizations realize the opportunity in providing smart phones and connected devices globally from the high-end to the low-end of the market. The convergence of knowledge will make Tizen a catalyst for providing more innovation not just in smart phones – every vendor and operator will have the ability to provide a huge variety of customizable services to their customer.”
The 15 new members, alphabetically, are:
- AccuWeather
- Ixonos
- Acrodea
- Nomovok
- Baidu
- Piceasoft
- CloudStreet
- Red Bend Software
- Cyberlightning
- SoftBank Mobile
- DynAgility
- Sprint
- Gamevil
- ZTE
- Inside Secure
