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The
Z2 phone, equipped with a 4-inch screen and India-specific
features such as a safety mode for motorcyclists, will be the
cheapest Tizen phone Samsung has launched to date at 4,590
rupees ($68.44).
The phone, the first Tizen-powered device that will run on 4G
networks, will start selling in India on Aug. 29.
The world's top maker of smartphones, televisions and memory
chips is trying to reduce its dependence on Google, whose
Android operating system powers Samsung's Galaxy smartphones.
The firm has been using Tizen on products ranging from TVs, home
appliances and wearable products to enable the devices to
communicate with each other and phones via the internet.
Samsung has so far kept Tizen for a small number of markets such
as India and Bangladesh, where many potential customers are
still first-time buyers looking for a cheap device and do not
necessarily need a big library of apps.
The firm declined to comment on sales figures but analysts have
said the Z2's predecessors have found some success.
($1 = 67.0625 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Se Young Lee; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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