After months of going back and forth with its development,
Samsung has finally unveiled its first Tizen-powered smartphone – the Samsung
Z.
The phone is built around a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display
with 720p resolution. Under the hood is (possibly) a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
chipset with a 2.3GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in
storage that can be expanded using a microSD card.
Samsung has also migrated some of the innovations it has
made with its Android handsets into the Samsung Z including the fingerprint
reader, heart rate sensor, Download booster and Ultra Power Saving Mode from
the Galaxy S5.
The Samsung Z also comes with an 8MP camera at the back, a
2.1MP front-facing snapper, LTE connectivity, NFC, an IR sensor, Bluetooth and
Wi-Fi. The phone will run on Tizen 2.2.1 that will come with a revamped user
interface that can be customized using the built-in theming engine.
The Samsung Z will launch in Q3 2014 initially in Russia,
while other markets will shortly follow. The phone will also be showcased at the
company’s Tizen Developer conference on June 3.
