Samsung pushes back Tizen to 2013, Bada almost certainly dead

It's no secret that Samsung has for a long time planned to phase out its homegrown smartphone platform, Bada, and replace it with Tizen. While many of us hoped to see the first Tizen-running phone from Samsung this year, it seems like Samsung is going to be a bit too busy for that.

Instead, for the remainder of 2012, Samsung will be focusing on the development of Android devices, as well as on smartphones running Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 8.

Tizen developers have blamed the slow progress on lack of development tools and poor software upgrades.

Either way, with Tizen on the (slightly more distant) horizon, it's probably a safe bet that we won't see any more Bada phones.

To check out a preview of Tizen on a developer device, go here.

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Watch how this Tizen developer tablet runs Android apps without breaking a sweat

Tizen is now officially into its version 1.0 era and development has been going great. However, when it becomes available for everyone to use, it probably won’t have 500,000 apps at its disposal.

That’s why Samsung and Intel have wittily enabled the platform to run Android applications as well. Using a special “Application Compatibility” layer, the Tizen platform, and the first tablet it powers can run virtually any app from the Google Play store.

Here’s a video courtesy TheHandleBlog, who take a dive in a Tizen developer tablet showcasing some Android apps.

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Tizen and BlackBerry 10 browser top the HTML5 test benchmark

The Linux-based Tizen platform is yet to see the light of day on a retail handset but it goes without saying that the OS is being tested internally by Samsung. As such, we are not completely surprised to see the name pop-up in benchmark results, which in this case happens to be the browser based HTML5 test.

What’s interesting, however, is that the Tizen browser not only showed up in the benchmark, it also managed to top it within its category (Mobile Phones) while running on an unknown device. But it wasn’t alone; snapping at its heels was a browser from another, yet to be launched OS, the BlackBerry 10.

As you can see from the scores above, the Tizen browser took the No.1 spot with a score of 363 with 15 bonus points whereas the BlackBerry 10 browser got a score of 361 with 10 additional points. Although it’s not confirmed yet, both browsers are likely to be based on the WebKit rendering engine, same as Mobile Safari and the Android browser. The third spot goes to the stable version of the recently launched Opera 12, with a score of 354 and 10 extra points. In comparison, both the iOS 5 and Android 4.0 browsers are behind, the latter more so than the former, and the Internet Explorer Mobile in Windows Phone 7.5 scored even less than the browser in Nokia Belle.

Of course, in real world, the HTML5 score does not affect the browser performance by a lot, especially today, but it’s one of those things that’s good to have, particularly in terms of future-proofing.

Update: As noted in the comments below, the score for the Tizen browser has been updated and it now stands at an astonishing 387 points with 15 bonus points. That’s even more than Chrome 17, which currently has the highest score of all the desktop browsers out there!