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Samsung Gaming Hub is a one-stop-shop for your cloud gaming needs, coming soon to your Samsung Smart TV
The Samsung Gaming Hub is a new game discovery platform coming to select Samsung Smart TVs later this year.
While CES 2022 officially kicks off on January 5, Samsung has decided to make some early product announcements. On Sunday, the South Korean company announced new eco-friendly remotes and not so eco-friendly NFT Aggregation Platform for Samsung smart TVs. In addition, the company also announced a new feature called Samsung Gaming Hub.
Samsung starts licensing Tizen OS to other TV makers
Samsung has announced the Tizen TV Platform Licensing program allowing other TV makers to license Tizen OS for their own products.
Samsung is working on a couple of new features for its TV operating system -- Tizen OS. At the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) yesterday, the company revealed that it's working with Google to bring better video calling capabilities to its smart TVs. Samsung also plans to bring Samsung Health features to smart TVs, using an in-built webcam to track users' movements and provide feedback during workouts. Furthermore, Samsung is bringing a couple of gaming improvements to the operating system to reduce latency and offer better HDR calibration.
Samsung is only ditching Tizen for its smartwatches and not its TVs
Samsung has confirmed that, despite their Wear OS collaboration with Google, they'll still use Tizen in other products, such as TVs.
Samsung's Tizen operating system took a wild turn. At Google I/O 2021, Google announced that the next update of Wear OS was made in collaboration with Samsung. This collaboration signified that Samsung would have a central role in developing the next version of Wear OS, bringing several of their services and features over, while also announcing that their upcoming smartwatches would no longer run Tizen but rather Wear OS from this point onwards. This led many people to think that Samsung was abandoning Tizen and merging it outright into Wear OS. The truth of the matter, however, is that Tizen is not only running on smartwatches. The company officially confirmed that, at least as of this moment, they will still use Tizen in its TVs.
Google revealed today that it is working on new updates for Wear OS, in partnership with Samsung. It was also announced that future Galaxy Watches would use Google's Wear OS platform, instead of the Tizen-based software that Samsung has used for its wearables over the past few years. Samsung has now clarified what the transition means for the millions of Galaxy Watches it has already sold.
Samsung and Google are rebuilding Wear OS to challenge the Apple Watch
Google's Wear OS software platform will recieve its biggest updates in years, thanks to new partnerships with Samsung and Fitbit.
Google's software platform for smartwatches, Wear OS, hasn't received much attention over the past few years. Even though Fossil, Mobvoi, and other manufacturers have continued to release new Wear OS devices, the underlying software has seen few updates recently. Third-party app development has also stalled, especially in comparison to the Apple Watch. Thankfully, all that could be changing, as Google is now working with Samsung to revamp Wear OS.
Galaxy Watch 4 will reportedly ditch Tizen for Wear OS with custom skin
Samsung is gearing up to release new smartwatches later this year that will reportedly run Wear OS with One UI 3 rather than Tizen.
There have been reports that Samsung is going to release a new Galaxy Watch that runs Wear OS, and a new report has details on what that might look like. Apparently, Samsung’s upcoming wearable will run Android but it will be topped with One UI 3.
Here are the specifications of Samsung's new Galaxy Watch Active smartwatch
The firmware for Samsung's upcoming smartwatch, the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active, reveals the full list of possible specifications and features.
Unlike smartphones, Android isn't the dominant OS for smartwatches. According to Statista, Apple sells the most smartwatches out of any vendor, but Samsung has a respectable market share with their Tizen OS-based smartwatches. Their latest model, the Samsung Galaxy Watch, was launched in the middle of 2018. Since then, we've heard rumors that Samsung is preparing to refresh their 2017 Samsung Gear Sport smartwatch. In fact, press renders for a device thought to be the "Samsung Galaxy Sport" leaked online, as shown in the feature image above. Thanks to a tip from XDA Recognized Developer deadman96385, we now know that the device will really be called the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active. Finally, thanks to the Galaxy Watch Active's firmware files, we have most of its specifications and features too.
Samsung is rolling out Tizen 4 to the Samsung Gear S3 and Gear Sport smartwatches
Samsung is rolling out the Tizen 4.0 update to the Samsung Gear Sport smartwatch. Read on to know what is new in this update!
The rest of the world may have forgotten about smartwatches, but Samsung has not, so far. The company is treating its customers to a new software update as it has begun rolling out Tizen 4 to the Samsung Gear S3 Classic, Gear S3 Frontier and Gear Sport smartwatches.
Samsung's Gear S3 Value Pack Updates the Classic and the Frontier to Tizen 3.0.0.1 and More
Samsung has just announced the Gear S3 Value Pack update which brings Tizen 3.0.0.1 to the Classic and the Frontier with a number of new features. Read on!
It was recently reported that the top 5 spots of the global wearable market for Q3 2017 included Apple, Xiaomi, Fitbit, Huawei and Samsung. Samsung may have been at the bottom of this list but they still shipped one smartwatch for every 23 Galaxy flagship smartphones during the quarter. Samsung is still more confident in its wearable operating system than they are with Android Wear and to prove the point, they have just announced the Gear S3 Value Pack update for Samsung Gear S3 owners.
Learn How to Build an APK Installer for Your Tizen Smartwatch Widget
Tutorial teaches you how to build an APK installer for your Tizen OS Smartwatch Widget.
As of right now, if you want to install a widget into your smartwatch running Tizen OS such as the Samsung Gear 2, you’ll have to sideload the wgt file onto the device using SBD tool. I’m sure that for many Android users who also happen to own a Tizen wearable, installing widgets onto that device isn’t as straightforward as what one may have gotten used to when using Android. With this said, there’s now a way which you can install Tizen widgets as an APK courtesy of XDA Recognized Developer Skin1980.
First Tizen OS Custom ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Gear
Rid yourself stock Tizen OS ROM with first custom ROM for this system!
At this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, alongside the premiere of many devices, Samsung introduced its first devices featuring the brand new mobile operating system Tizen OS. To date, it's mainly been used in various smartwatches and wristbands, and eventually Samsung may use it as a replacement for Android.