A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

check this:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/22/w...red-galaxy-s3/

:eek:

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

The build quality is crap though. It's only Nokia and Motorola that make rock solid phones. For that reason I'd avoid it. The galaxy S2 is a flagship phone but it feal cheap and plasticky.

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

You mean S3, right?

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

Samsung has one of the BEST build quality around. What every uneducated people complain about are their BUILD PARTS.

And frankly, the plastic on my NOTE, did stop feeling cheap very quickly. And I appreciate it cause makes it durable to drops and much more lighter to tow about.

Analogy: It would be like saying Volkswagen makes really low build quality cars because it dresses them up in a (advanced) fibre glass... where as Ferrari makes its cars in Carbon Fibre.

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

Who cares about build quality. Focus on the OS and great things about new os gives the user base market.

It's so sad to see people finding errors in prototype, and demos.

Behave guys. You don't like new technology?

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

If it'll be open enough to install other Linux-es (like Nemo) - then great.

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

I think its a red-herring...There have been such certificates given out before for a SGS2 with Tizen too IIRC but you don't see much development on Tizen still...

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

I have a Tizen dev device by Samsung.

I can assure you that the build quality, fit and finish leaves a lot to be desired. As does the OS at this very moment.

Pairing Tizen with the S3 device would be a sureshot better than what I have in my hands right now.

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

Okay, so I should've included mainstream/flagship devices only.

By the way Dave, Nokia seems to be the only one focusing on build quality rather than the OS. Lumias are pretty and all, but Windows Phone leaves a bitter taste on my thumbs.

I rather a bearable build quality and a tasty OS instead.

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

If it comes to Samsung's flagship phones I'm fine with it.As long as there'll be a dualboot!

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

Yes, build quality is important for a released product. But how important is that to discuss on a rumor like this where we simple have nothing to go on?

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

It's 2012 - there's no reason why we shouldn't have superior build quality especially when the price of devices is so high. Settling for 'bearable' is a no-brainer - I expect whatever I buy to be durable and well constructed otherwise it's going back.

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

IMHO, its just a devel-board slapped to some approximate casing, not a real pre-production prototype, like for example the N950. Like you can actually see the edge of the PCB near the connector openings. :) IIRC it can't even do phone calls properly & not to mention the issues with software update.

100% Agree. It feels very basic at the moment & judging by the mailing list activity (or rather the lack of it) it seems their are still getting the most basic things to work at the moment.

BTW, I really wish they were more open with the development. It looks like there is basically just a bunch of Samsung/Intel guys somewhere, developing everything behind closed doors. They just release some code, drop some wiki pages and even if they read the mailing lists, they mostly do not answer.

Also, the project seems to be hell-bent on HTML5 only with no plans for official native apps support whatsoever, in the name of security (IRRC).

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

How do you get a device with Tizen from Samsung? Are you developing stuff for it? What are the specs, and can you share photos? Does it have xterm :) ?

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

The S3 is a fine device. I'm just not convinced that Tizen would be an improvement over Android. You just trade one sandbox for another, and lose a huge established support base in the process.

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

Maybe not an improvement - it doesn't have to be - but at least a further option to choose from.
And if it did happen the support base would only get bigger / better (?)

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

Dude, they hande out dev devices months ago. But they are nowhere ner a device you are looking for. If it have x term. What do you think? :D

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

good question no xterm :( ... maybe we can try to hack a html5 stuff but unsure it will complain the platform else efl is an alternative ...
or even more hackish a javascript ssh client :-)


PM me and I can help you to get one dev device ...

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http://rzr.online.fr/q/tizen

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

dev device... how?

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

oh you must be talking about these http://lwn.net/Articles/498307/.
these have dual core A9, 1gb ram, what else do I want :).

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

That's one of the two.

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

Sounds like you prefer a Blackberry over an iPhone.
Or a Lumia 800 over a Nexus.

The build quality needs to be first and foremost, good enough for its intended purposes. You can focus on things like Waterproofing, Styling and other details after.

However, if the device is limited from a certain functionality... it is likely to stay that way, unless you upgrade to their new device or a competitor. It's been like this for decades, and this RoT isn't going to change anytime soon.

Re: A Tizen Flavoured Galaxy S3 :O ?
 

I think they are just getting a device ready for their upcoming event to show its functionality like they did with the s2 hd, but I wouldn't mind getting my hands on and tizen s3!