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Lack of support from carriers could doom Samsung’s Android killer

04
Feb
2014

When Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo indefinitely delayed its plans to release a Tizen smartphone on the same day it was supposed to launch in January, our idealistic vision of a new Samsung, free from the Android OS began to fade away. If Tizen never takes off, we might look back at that moment as the crushing blow, but as The Wall Street Journal reports, there were plenty of complications before the NTT DoCoMo incident that threatened to curb the rise of Tizen before it could ever launch. All over the world, carriers have toyed with the idea of welcoming Samsung’s new platform into the fold, only to abandon Tizen for greener pastures before releasing a product. Sprint joined the Tizen

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