Samsung Announces The Galaxy Gear 2 Smart Watch With Better Battery And Tizen OS, Coming In April

[Myna]

Samsung has announced the availability of the Galaxy Gear 2 smart watch, a Tizen OS-powered wearable that will get up to three days of battery life and is promised to allow for a improved applications. There will be two models – the Galaxy Gear 2 with camera and the Gear 2 Neo without – and they will ship in April.

The Tizen OS, a new mobile operating system Samsung first tried to use in the NX300m camera, will allow for an “enriched application ecosystem.” The device has a 1.63-inch touchscreen, a 1GHz processor, and 4GB internal storage. Most important, however, the device will be compatible with more Samsung smartphones. Sorry iOS users.

Tizen is Samsung’s open source, multi-device OS that that the company hopes to take to ubiquity in multiple devices including in-car entertainment units and smart TVs. It uses web APIs to allow developers to build applications with a small footprint that can run on multiple screens – including watches.

No pricing yet but Samsung excepts to ship in April. You can read a bit more about the device at Engadget.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/23/samsung-announces-the-galaxy-gear-2-smart-watch-with-better-battery-and-tizen-os-coming-in-april/

[Reyes]

Hope they will develop and support Tizen to make it a much better OS...What happened with BADA OS was bit disappointing...

[tatts300]

Hi to all

I have the first Gear Watch i got it with my Samsung Galaxy Note 3

to me it is good & i have rooted it including my phone I have been rooting phones for a long time now

With the Gear Watch i rooted it & put a new system on it & got many new customizable features

all my rooting comes from one site I will not give a link to it coz i am sure this will be the same as

any forum no outside links but i can give the name it is called XDA Google it & you will find all

your rooting ETC.... information you need

Edited February 24, 2014 by tatts300

[geeteam]

@Reyes BADA OS was a complete failure, OH they finally tested it on their Smartwatch. What can I say? Maybe in my opinion, Samsung should have released a Tizen-powered smartphone first than thinking of putting it on their Smartwatch.