The official release of the mobile platform Tizen 1.0 Larkspur

Released in January of this year, the mobile platform Tizen, positioned by the creators as an alternative to Android, is the successor of two other mobile platforms - MeeGo and LiMo. And the first of the systems - MeeGo - is itself a symbiosis of earlier Maemo (made by Nokia) and Moblin (from Intel). The development is supported by the Linux and Limo Foundation funds, and the release of the first devices is expected in the last quarter of 2012.

On April 30, Tizen developers released Tizen 1.0 release codenamed Larkspur. The main focus since the release of alpha and beta versions has been on job stability and performance improvements; In addition, various new features have been added to the previously mentioned system properties.
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For the Web, this is support for the W3C / HTML5 specifications, WebRTC capabilities (promoted by Google open peer-to-peer communications platform), Vibration API; Added new location related features, such as route search and POI support; A long list of new features was obtained by Tizen graphics and UI systems - among the most interesting are support for 3D graphics, OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0, a composite window manager based on EFL and a number of others; The list of supported audio and video codecs has been added (among them, Theora).

In addition, in addition to Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 32-bit, the list of systems supporting the Tizen SDK also added Windows XP SP3 / 7 32-bit (MacOS release is also expected soon).

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Tizen project website, press release