Low-end Samsung SM-Z130H should be launched soon, here's its Tizen UI

3. Tziggy14 (Posts: 538; Member since: 02 Sep 2014)

Indians are known to take any phone that will offer the cheapest prices to use. Thats why Windows phones and feature phones still thrive there.

11. ferret101 (Posts: 21; Member since: 25 Aug 2014)

Wow, please check facts before stereotyping.

Indians are known to take phones which offer the best value and those aren't necessarily dirt cheap.(The nexus 5 which although was available for nearly $500, was a huge sales success)

The only windows phones that have sold well in India are the 520 and 920 and both were brilliant devices for their time. And features phones will sell in the country where a third of the population lives below the poverty line. However that being said, feature phone users are upgrading to $100 dollar droids like moto e, zenfone 4, android one and redmi 1s

24. frederick333123 (Posts: 76; Member since: 15 Jun 2013)

@ferret wel said bro.... +1000

13. Vinayakn73 (Posts: 197; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)

Ohhhhhhh that's totally bull__t. Stop sending foreign garbage in India.

26. pulkit1 (Posts: 354; Member since: 03 Jul 2014)

nope , that is not how it works here. indians when on budget look for value . When we are in mood of spending we buy only the best and most expensive case in point note 4 and 6 plus.

5. sgodsell (Posts: 4855; Member since: 16 Mar 2013)

Its not going to have all the apps that both Android an iOS currently have. That's a given. Samsung does have great hardware. I love their AMOLED displays. They are going to fight an uphill battle with the other mobile OS's.

22. diehardnokian (Posts: 145; Member since: 27 Apr 2014)

oh boy..! this makes me realize how beautiful TouchWiz is :o. And at least TW had android app support to back them, what does Tizen have?! bada apps?!!

8. PK1983 (Posts: 215; Member since: 08 Aug 2012)

That is the point. Get people used to the style and not the OS. Eventually Sammy can get rid of Android and no one will care because they are used to Touchwiz and not the underlying os.

27. pulkit1 (Posts: 354; Member since: 03 Jul 2014)

what about apps ? it can go both ways.

15. elitewolverine (Posts: 5192; Member since: 28 Oct 2013)

Most people don't, so it's rather perfect.

19. joey_sfb (Posts: 6600; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)

Perfect for people that dislike samsung and android.

Well, elitewolverine finally an OS that is worse than wp8. Does it make you happy?

21. elitewolverine (Posts: 5192; Member since: 28 Oct 2013)

Honestly its only fanboys that think a person goes into a store, well instead of person, we will say vast majority. And go. I need Samsung with Android Lollipop please and access to 1million apps via google play store, even though i will install 10.

No they go into the store, look at the phone, feel it in hand. Will ask the sales associate "How is this phone" the sales associate will try to judge the person and go from there.

I could care less if it's worse, i have the opportunity to use iOS, Android, WP, and others DAILY. I get to play on phones for a living, i also get to fix all the android bugs, fbi security breaks, camera fails, acorn/contacts/process etc errors that come up with android. I get to see someone buy a 100$ 8gb phone and find out most apps cant be moved to the sd card.

Point in case, no one really cares about the OS except fanboys or people interested monetarily in the ecosystem (developers/stock holders).

23. joey_sfb (Posts: 6600; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)

That's a long posting for someone that don't care.

12. vincelongman (Posts: 5068; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)

Both iOS and Android are a mix of skeuomorphism or flat UI as well

iOS still have gradients (e.g. icons) and has glass translucent planes (e.g. notifications)

Material Design is very skeuomorphic, its meant to emulate paper after all, it uses shadows/lighting and motion/physics

28. pulkit1 (Posts: 354; Member since: 03 Jul 2014)

But in the end it looks better than this thing . Material design is not skeuomorphic , apart from paper they are not emulating any real world object . Physics is present in wp also .

25. RoboBonobo (Posts: 62; Member since: 13 Sep 2013)

UPSM does other stuff, too, that doesn't depend on the screen.