World's First Tizen Tablet

DeviceGuru writes "Japanese firm Systena Corp. has announced what appears to be the world's first Tizen-based tablet, and the first Tizen product of any kind. The unnamed Systena Tizen tablet offers high-end features including a 1.4GHz, quad-core Cortex-A9 system-on-chip, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of flash, a 10.1-inch 1920 x 1200-pixel display, 2-megapixel rear-facing and 0.3-megapixel front-facing cameras, and a microSD slot — specs that approach those of the most powerful Android tablets currently on the market. Japanese carrier and major Tizen backer NTT DoCoMo will sell the device, according to a report by TizenExperts. Last month at the Tizen Developers Conference, NTT DoCoMo and Orange promised Tizen smartphone launches in 2013, presumably using upcoming Samsung Tizen phones, but mentioned nothing about tablets."

Re:I put on my robe & wizard hat

[Anonymous Coward]

The answer is define run.

Tizen is Linux based. So same kernel as Android and Ubuntu. If you can unlock the bootloader most likely no reason why a Ubuntu firmware could not be installed.

Tizen at this stage does not have virtual machines like Android does that allow Ubuntu to run inside Android. Again you can expect those to come as the platform Applications mature. But since Tizen can run Android applications yes its possible to run Ubuntu inside.

Result is an answer somewhere between yes and maybe depending on what you mean by run..

Re:For those of you like me who don't have a clue.

[twomi]

When was Android last mentioned by Samsung? Their brand lies now with Galaxy, not Android. Samsung Galaxy is basically an industry synonym for Android (high-end) phone today. They likely intend to use this brand value to eventually ship Tizen phones as Galaxy phones, and if skinned with same UI and some Android compatibility layer for apps, nobody is missing Android.