Exclusive: Galaxy Watch will come with Tizen 4.0 out of the box
There is not going to be a Gear S4. Samsung has decided to bring its wearables under the Galaxy branding and will be launching the Gear S3 successor as the Galaxy Watch later this year. While there have been plenty of rumors surrounding the Galaxy Watch’s naming and its possible launch time frame, there’s been nothing about the features it might offer. We know it will have Bixby, but that’s about it. However, we can now confirm that the Galaxy Watch will come with a newer version of Samsung’s Tizen OS.
Galaxy Watch will run latest version of Tizen
The Galaxy Watch will run Tizen 4.0 out of the box, which may not come as a surprise as Tizen 4.0 was made official more than a year ago. Samsung hasn’t said anything about new features Tizen 4.0 will offer on its smartwatches, though. That’s also not so surprising, as the company would want to wait until the unveiling of the Galaxy Watch before laying down its cards on the table. Tizen 4.0 has a big focus on the Internet of Things ecosystem and comes with new voice control APIs, so we can, at the very least, expect to see Samsung putting the limelight on Bixby’s debut on its smartwatch lineup.
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Samsung made very good decision. Tizen proofs to be best system for wearable. Keep going Samy.
Might be worth Samsung making two – a Tizen Gear S4 and a Android Wear Galaxy Watch.
They should still experiment with Android Wear because they’re many consumers out there who think the Gear S3 etc. are compatible with Samsung devices only.
I knew that AW rumor was just clickbait crap. Lol
Yeah, it came from Ice Universe, who’s been solid with his track record so it got some coverage, and then then Evleaks had to jump on it as well before retracting. Ice Universe’s accuracy has fallen recently, though, so we’re being more careful.
Yes, I remember Evan Blass, saying it was getting AW then confirmed he was wrong, and it appeared again as you said. I’m relieved it’s Tizen, after a couple of AW watches I definitely don’t want to go back there.
What is main difference between AW and Tizen for you as user? Battery life, UX etc?
Battery life probably is not an issue on AW watches if the battery would be big enough. I do get 2.5 days plus on my S3 Frontier and barely got a day on my older model Huawei watch. But the Huawei battery was a lot smaller. I think with a bigger battery AW would be as, good as Tizen. The main reason for me is ease of use. The bezel navigation and menu system is far ahead of AW in my opinion. People say more apps on AW, but most of them are pretty stupid. Everything necessary on a smartwatch… Read more »
Good information!
So no Wear OS? Good.
