Tizen-powered Samsung Z1 (2016) being tested, import/export website shows

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We’ve
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about a new Samsung smartphone bearing the model number
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, known as the
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. It’s only been a week since we mentioned the new Z1, but the Z1 (2016) has appeared on an Indian import/export website that confirms the product is indeed headed to market.

Import/export site Eximpulse has caught the phone in question, being used “for R&d purpose and evaluation & not for retail sale,” with the individual parts such as the battery, battery cover, front assembly, and rear case being mentioned. The product list tells us little about what we can expect from the device, however, so we’re still left with little to give in the way of compiling a spec sheet.

While it seemed that the
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would be retired after the arrival of the
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late last year, it seems as though the second-generation Z1 is the start of a tiered series for Samsung, where the Z1, Z3, and
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(with
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and possibly a metal chassis) will represent different tiers of the company’s “Z” series – and each tier has varying price points. Samsung
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about its 2016 Tizen-powered smartphones.

Though Samsung has been criticized heavily for its slow updates on its high-end Android handsets, the Korean giant hasn’t been slow to update its Tizen-powered devices. The Z3 for example, just received
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last month in India, around the same time that the Z1
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, the latest in its mobile operating system that brings features such as
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.
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to become the world’s fourth-largest mobile OS.

Though we’ve yet to see how Samsung’s 2016 Tizen-powered smartphones will fare in the global market, the Samsung Z3
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last year, giving the company hopes that a new year, its
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, and improved smartphone specs and features (hopefully,
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) with the entire Z series will continue to boost sales.

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