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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Tizen may mean "eleven" in Hungarian, but when it's phonetically spoken outloud the English word "teasin'" (teasing) comes to mind. I guarantee you that will become a wordplay in the press that won't look good for the new OS (the way "Ovi" went over very badly with English and Latin-derived languages speaking countries). They really should reconsider the name. Quickly.
WTF is wrong with them?!?
Is it because it's mostly Nordic + Korean/Japanese peoples involved in the naming?
I at least want some explanation of how they came up with the name, & it better not be stupid.

Originally Posted by xerxes2 View Post
The whole Tizen thing is actually a bit funny because Nokia whined a long time before they were allowed to call Harmattan Meego. I bet qgil and other Nokia dudes didn't see this coming. Or anyone else for that matter.

Now what's next? The N9 being delayed a few more weeks because they must make new boxes marked "Tizen 1.2 Harmattan".
ehehehe, total re-branding, delayed for 2mths!

Last edited by jalyst; 2011-09-29 at 08:42.
 

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