When the follow-up to the Galaxy Gear smartwatch is unveiled at Mobile World Congress next week, Samsung might surprise us all. USA Today reports-that the Galaxy Gear 2 will ditch Android in favor of Samsung’s Tizen OS. Previous reports regarding Samsung’s operating system have indicated that the South Korean company has struggled to convince manufacturers to move away from Android, the worldwide leader in the mobile market. Shipping the Galaxy Gear 2 with Tizen would be a huge boost for the Samsung OS and its partners, while simultaneously giving consumers a chance to see the platform in action. “The new Gear smartwatch operating system will be an HTML5 version of Tizen,” said USA Today’s sources. “HTML5 is the latest version

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