This Is Samsung's First Tizen Phone

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Samsungs been playing with its Tizen operating system for some time now, looking for a way to break free of the Google ties it relies on for its Android Galaxy smartphone successes. Testing the waters in Russia for the third quarter of this year, its a 4.9-inch handset with a 1280 x 720 super AMOLED display, running off a 2.3GHz quad-core processor (as-yet undefined), backed by 2GB of RAM. The Samsung Z also takes a few features from the Galaxy S5, with a fingerprint sensor embedded in its home button and a heart-rate monitor on the back too. Overall, the Tizen UI looks fairly similar to whats seen already on the Samsungs TouchWiz Android skin. The handset will be on show at the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco this week.

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