Shreya G.
SG
Shreya G.
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Tizen- a user friendly platform"
5/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

It is a user friendly OS. The APIS are so easy to understand and work with. Working in Samsung, we are so content with the services provided with Tizen platform. And it is truth worthy aa it is way older than other OS platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

Nothing to be honest. Just requires some polishing of new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Program Development
UP
Verified User in Program Development
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Proficient tizen developer"
4/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

Tizen has been the Samsung OS since 2014. The apis and media playback experience is reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

The OS and in particular web support is lagging atleast by 5 years e.g 2018 tv supports web features on or before 2015. It’s very hard to build an app with using latest web features e.g grid which has been around for a while now.

The navigation library caph is good but ancient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Towfiq N.
TN
Towfiq N.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Worked in Tizen for about 5.5 years"
4/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

Tizen TV OS, Family hub and IoT devices are good use of Tizen. Samsung is working on other wearables to integrate with Tizen OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

User interface can be better. It should introduce one ui with Tizen. It can be made a little bit faster so that user can get same level of experience compared to android. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
UT
Verified User in Telecommunications
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Tizen TV for OTT streaming"
3/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

Sound and video quality was very good. Good user experience while testing various Web application on this tv Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

Doesn't support automation testing. This device need a separate framework for automation testing.

Other than this for manual testing overall user experience was very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Program Development
UP
Verified User in Program Development
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"OS is awesome but market has no quality apps, for quality app dev. at mail shahzainali@live.com"
4/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

Speed. their workout is awesome specially sleep tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

When i was on motorbike, watch assumes i am cycling and it shows calories burn according to that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepesh S.
DS
Deepesh S.
Senior Systems Engineer/Lead Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Tizen : Faster way of getting things done"
5/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

Tizen is blazingly fast and responsive. A linux based operating system also makes it less suseptible to virus attacks. Though not an active user currently, i used it for couple of years a while back and found it much more responsive compared to Android/Windows phone.Not Only Speed wise, being a lightweight OS, it also gives amazing results with seemingly lesser configurations ( works pretty neat with less RAM) when you compare the HW configuration of other competeters .

Another great feature which i like was Ultra power saving mode in Tizen Phones, which basically shuts down all un-necessary features and gives it a keypad phone kind-a look and improves the Battery Life insanely!

To conclude i love how they have optimized the Hw resources to get the maximum benefit out of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

In one Word, i missed App Store which was the primary reason of moving back to android. Though i hope the continous work on intoducing more alike and distinctive apps can help tizen go up the ladder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Itban S.
IS
Itban S.
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Implemented the application from scratch using Web and Native code related to sensors."
3.5/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

Despite of having a lot of uncertainties, the best part of using Tizen is that the officials are trying their best to enhance the understanding of the developers by improving the documentation, organizing live chat sessions and promoting the developers communities.

If you are stuck somewhere, You can use platforms like Tizen Developers Community and the Samsung Developers Community to get the answer to your problem. The documentation does not contain sufficient information yet, but it is being improved day by day.

If you've developed an incredible application, You can submit that for the "Best of Galaxy Store Awards". This is also a great initiative for motivating the developers to use Tizen platform. I think it will increase the efficiency and maturity of Tizen APIs as the increasing number of developers will result in identification of possible bugs and suggestions for their fixes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

Every technology has it's pros and cons, There are a couple of things that I dislike about Tizen.

First one is the incomplete documentation. A documentation is supposed to have all the information related to the APIs and other stuff but you shouldn't expect this in case of Tizen.

Sometimes there is not sufficient information available about the purpose or the possible values of any method parameters. You may not be able to find the output of any API call. In some cases the API call description only translates the name of the API call and nothing more.

In my personal opinion, When it comes to the API documentation, it should contain each and every single bit of information about all the methods. It will help the developers to understand the behavior of Tizen and polish their code in a different perspective.

Another thing I would like to point out is the legacy software of Tizen Studio which is a really heavy thing for the machine. It can cost you a lot of resources when you work on the Tizen Studio as it slows down the system sometimes. The UI is also not much user friendly and it has a lot of room for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Faster development and easy to learn"
4/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

Samsung owns Tizen and web development makes the system popular to app developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

Tizen community is still immature and have helpful information! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Tizen is the best OS for IOT devices"
4/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

It is lightweight and easy to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

Mobile OS development got stopped, we cant write apps for mobile phones now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"2 years and more with tizen"
3/5
What do you like best about Tizen?

Its UI like you dont have to go deeper and deeper into mentus to juts get one option you need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tizen?

Compatibility like if i developed tizen application using olders version it has issue ruining on the updated tizen version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.