ASUS and Acer introduce devices based on Tizen in the second half of this year

Mobile platform Tizen, developed jointly by Intel and Samsung to be submitted in late June, and the devices on its base, such as smart phones, netbooks and solutions for automotive electronics, hit the market in the second half of this year. This is the resource DigiTimes, citing sources among manufacturers of computer equipment. The announcement of the joint project of Intel and Samsung in September 2011, as a further development of the ideas inherent in the MeeGo and LiMo. After this, the organization was formed Tizen Association, which includes the company NTT docomo, Orange, NEC, Panasonic, Sprint, Vodafone, SK Telecom and Telefonica. Also Tizen Association works with Linux foundation. Specific plans for the withdrawal of devices on the market is not yet known, but it is reported that before the end of the third quarter of 2012 to the markets of developing countries will arrive netbooks from ASUS and Acer, which will have an operating system predustanvlennuyu Tizen. Also, their support for the project and the intention to release this year sets based on this platform today announced a Taiwanese company HTC. Probably at the same time Samsung will introduce its products. Official information on the issue of such decisions from any of these manufacturers have been reported.