有鉴于三星(Samsung)搭载 Android 系统的智能手机在过去几年来所展现的成就，你可能会认为这家南韩公司应该十分满意现状而不太可能会想“搞破坏”吧？那可不一定。
三星提供一系列广泛且完整的智能手机产品，同时也是目前市场上唯一一家真正能与苹果公司展开竞争的厂商。而今，这家在整个 Android 智能手机市场占约40%的手机业巨擘，正计划推出基于“泰泽”(Tizen)系统的手机。
为了摆脱对于 Android 系统的依赖，三星与英特尔等公司在2011年开发出基于 Linux核心的移动操作系统── Tizen 。三星并计划在今年八月推出首款搭载 Tizen 的高阶智能手机，预计接下来还会推出更多 Tizen系统的手机。
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根 据国际数据公司(IDC)的调查报告，2012年 Android 和苹果 iOS已囊括90%以上的智能手机市场。然而，智能手机制造商希望市场上能出现更多的操作系统。原因之一在于目前市场上的Android 手机缺少差异化。而另一个理由则是Google和Android目前简直是太强大了。
对于三星来说，着眼于 Tizen 系统，可能只是为了配合该公司提供广泛产品组合以吸引消费者的策略之一。市调公司Endpoint Technologies总裁Roger Kay认为，三星目前就好象把自己定位为一家可为用户喜好提供所有搭配与组合的“超级市场”。
本文授权编译自EE Times，版权所有，谢绝转载
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据Roger Kay表示，三星显然想追随苹果公司的脚步，设法控制尽可能最多的智能手机。就像苹果 iPhone 和 iPad 使用苹果专用处理器一样，三星也在其 Galaxy 智能手机中采用自家的 Exynos 处理器；不过在 Galaxy 4S 中却多半采用高通的 Snapdragon 芯片组。
然而，三星目前不可能会为了支持 Tizen 而完全放弃 Android ，尤其是考虑到该公司现在已经推出大量的 Android 手机了。根据ABI Research表示，部署于 Android 系统上的三星 TouchWiz 用户界面也将复制到 Tizen 和其它 OS 平台上，让所有制造商的设计都能提供一致的用户体验。
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对于三星而言，要完全放弃一款有助于其与苹果正面对决的免费操作系统，这的确不太容易。但Roger Kay认为终究免不了会发生这样的结局，“三星可能想与 Android 分道扬镳而走出自己的路，而且不必再受制于 Google。”
本文授权编译自EE Times，版权所有，谢绝转载
编译：Susan Hong
参考英文原文：Samsung plans first Tizen-based handset this year，by Dylan McGrath
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Samsung plans first Tizen-based handset this year
Dylan McGrath
Given Samsung's success with Android-based smartphones over the past couple of years, you might think the South Korean company wouldn't want to rock the boat. But that's not necessarily the case.
Samsung, which offers a broad portfolio of smartphone offerings, stands today as Apple's only real competition in the market. But now Samsung—which sells an estimated 40 percent of all Android smartphones—is making noise about offering phones based on Tizen, the Linux-based OS launched in 2011 to take on Android. Samsung has been a backer of Tizen from the get go.
Recently, the news service reported that Samsung plans to introduce the first Tizen-based handset, a high-end smarphone, later this. Speculation is that more on the way.
According to International Data Corp., Android and Apple's iOS accounted for more than 90 percent of the smartphone market last year. But smartphone makers would love to see more OSes gain traction. One reason is there is a perception about lack of differentiation in Android phones. Another reason is that Google and Android are simply too powerful right now.
For Samsung, banking on Tizen may simply be consistent with the company's strategy to offer a broad portfolio with a little bit of everything to entice consumers. "I think that right now Samsung sees itself as a supermarket that has all the mixes and matches that you might want," said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates Inc.
According to Kay, it's clear that Samsung is following in the footsteps of Apple in trying to control as much of its smartphones as possible. Just as Apple's iPhones and iPads use Apple's proprietary processors, Samsung has its own Exynos processor used in many Galaxy smartphones, though the company is also using Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset for most Galaxy S4s.
ABI Research believes it's unlikely that Samsung will ever abandon Android altogether in favor of Tizen, particularly in light of the large number of Android handsets the company currently offers. According to ABI, Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface, layered on top of Android, could be replicated on Tizen and other OS platforms to provide a consistent user experience across all the manufacturer’s designs.
Indeed, it's difficult to see Samsung ditching altogether a free OS that has helped it go head to head with Apple. But Kay believes it could eventually come to that. "Samsung might want to fork Android and go its own direction and not have Google looking over its shoulder," he said.
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