Tizen vs Android: What’s the difference?
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Written by Michael Brown on 17th April 2015
You may or may not have heard of the
Tizen operating system, depending upon how closely you follow the tech scene,
so today we are going to take a look at Tizen versus Android and uncover the
differences.
But, first let’s take a quick look
at the background of Tizen to put the whole story into context.
Tizen
Background
Tizen is a Linux-based operating
system whose development is guided by the Technical Steering Group, which is an
organisation that includes both Samsung and Intel.
In 2013 Samsung merged it’s Bada
project into Tizen and a base program was developed upon which sits device
specific operating systems such as Tizen Mobile and Tizen Wearable.
So far Samsung has launched a smart
camera and the Gear 2 smartwatch whilst Systena has launched a 10 inch tablet,
all running on Tizen.
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Why
Tizen?
The Tizen OS is clearly being
developed to compete with both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.
At this point in time most of the
benefits of Tizen are designed to make life easier for the developer, but of
course every such benefit will result in a better user experience and end
product.
Some of the key developer benefits
include:
- Flexibility - Mobile operators will enjoy greater flexibility to customise the OS and user experience and this can be wisely used to develop products that target specific demographics.
- Compatibility - Developers will be attracted to the open source flexibility of Tizen. Applications made using the Tizen OS will still be compatible and may be launched in other operating systems like iOS and Android.
- Support - Tizen supports JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
Tizen
vs Android: What’s the difference?
Now we have the techy bit out of the
way let’s take a look at our original question and discover the similarities
and differences between Android and Tizen.
- Start-up - Tizen is lightweight and offers a faster start-up compared to Android.
- Smoother scrolling - Tizen offers improved scrolling and rendering performance for web browsing.
- Notification bar - Just like devices running Samsung’s TouchWiz UI there will be a swipe down notification bar on Tizen devices.
- 3D - Tizen will offer 3D window effects with support for apps and games that require advanced 3D graphics.
- Multi-tasking and multi-touch - Multi-taking and multi-touch gestures are supported just like on Android devices.
- Dynamic boxes - Tizen’s dynamic box icons can be resized to show more or less information.
- 64-bit processors - Tizen version 3 will support 64-bit processors, which is something that Google is working on for its next Android update.
An initial Samsung Mobile trial of
the Tizen OS on a smartphone received comments that there was nothing different
from Android and iOS.
We could suggest that this was a
negative piece of news but instead we should think of this as a positive step
that confirms that the base model is running successfully and on a par with
Android and iOS.
Since then Tizen has promised that
its operating system’s uniqueness will change by the end of the year so we
should expect new and exciting developments within the Tizen v3 release.
The
Tizen challenge
So, we have taken a look at the
differences between Android and Tizen but now it is time to think about the
challenge ahead if Tizen is to become a success.
The first challenge will be to
reproduce alternatives to all of the Google services which are integrated
within the Android OS.
The second challenge will be to
develop the Tizen App Store as mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets
live or die based upon the wealth of apps available to them.
We only need to look at BlackBerry
and their recent announcement that their phones in the future will now have
access to Amazon’s Appstore as a quick example of how important this is.
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