Samsung's booth getting set up at Mobile World Congress 2013.
(Credit: Roger Cheng/CNET)
BARCELONA, Spain--Samsung Electronics expects to release its first smartphone running on the Tizen mobile operating system in July or August, CNET has learned.
The Tizen Association is scheduled to make the official announcement later this week at Mobile World Congress.
Tizen is an upstart operating system seen as an alternative to the stranglehold that Google's Android and Apple's iOS has on the smartphone industry. Samsung and Intel have been spearheading the development of the mobile OS, and Japan's NTT Docomo has already committed to carry the phones.
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Tizen is just one of many emerging mobile operating system to make a splash at MWC. Earlier today, Mozilla held its press conference and smartphones running on its Firefox OS have begun popping up at the show.
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