Samsung on Tuesday unwrapped its new smartphone using the Tizen platform, a move aimed at breaking away from Google's Android and staking a claim to the "Internet of Things." The South Korean consumer electronics colossus showed off the Samsung Z, its first Tizen-powered smartphone, in a break from the ubiquitous Android operating system used in the majority of its devices. Samsung touted Tizen as a platform not just for phones, but for a range of connected devices from home appliances to door locks and watches which may communicate with one another in the future.



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