Samsung Offers Its Tizen OS To Original Gear Smartwatch Owners

Samsung offers its Tizen OS to original Gear smartwatch owners

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Published 21 Jul 2014

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In a move unlikely to win any friends at , Samsung is giving users of its Galaxy Gear smartwatch a choice to switch from Android to the company’s Tizen OS.

This comes after a recent report that executives are unhappy with Samsung over the Korean company’s effort to push Tizen on its smartwatches instead of Android ar.

Samsung introduced the Galaxy Gear in 2013, running a variant of Android reconfigured to work on a watch. Since that time, has released Android ar, its own version of Android created specifically for such wearables. ile most Samsung watches are powered by Tizen, the company does sell the Android ar-powered Gear ve through the ay Store.

According to Samsung, Gear owners who switch to Tizen will get access to 140 Tizen apps have the ability to store music play it back through Bluetooth headphones. It also includes the stard Tizen customization features, such as the ability to choose different icons, fonts, wallpapers.