According to Japan's Daily Yomiuri, NTT DoCoMo is parterning with Samsung to develop phones running the Tizen operating system, with the first handsets reportedly reaching the market next year. According to the Yomiuri, other mobile carriers are getting behind the development of Tizen "because they fear the hegemony" of Apple and Google, whose OSes dominate the smartphone market. We've heard about Tizen as far back as September of 2011 -- this Linux-based software came about when Nokia's MeeGo OS bit the dust, and we've already seen evidence of a Tizen-based
