Samsung Electronics Unveils Two Tizen-Based Wristwatch Devices

Samsung Electronics Co., the largest maker of devices using Google Inc.’s Android software, unveiled wristwatches based on its Tizen operating system for the first time.

Samsung introduced the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, the Suwon-based company said in an e-mailed statement. The 1.63-inch wristwatches will go on sale from April and are compatible with more than dozens of Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy smartphones, it said.