SEOUL : South Korean electronics huge Samsung Electronics said it will launch smart televisions equipped with its new platform built around the Tizen operating system this year, as it seeks to lower its reliance on Google.
Samsung said all of its new web-connected TV sets would be run by Tizen, and added that it would reveal its first-ever Tizen smart TVs at a consumer electronics fair in Las Vegas next week. ‘Building our Smart Platform around Tizen is a groundbreaking step towards a much more intelligent and integrated system,’ Lee Won-Jin, a Samsung executive vice president, said in a statement.