{"id":189894,"date":"2016-11-30T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=189894"},"modified":"2016-11-30T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:00:57","slug":"jolla-sailfish-the-alternative-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/189894-jolla-sailfish-the-alternative-to-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Jolla Sailfish &#8211; an alternative to Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government has approved the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jolla.com\/jolla\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jolla\u00a0Sailfish\u00a0mobile OS<\/strong><\/a> for use in its ranks, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/11\/29\/russian-government-turns-to-the-ghost-of-nokias-mobile-os\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that Jolla &#8211; a Finnish company &#8211; announced it was also in discussions with South Africa and China for a similar deal.<\/p>\n<p>Jolla Sailfish &#8220;rose from the\u00a0ashes of Nokia and Intel&#8217;s doomed MeeGo&#8221;, and the company states its OS provides &#8220;true multitasking&#8221;, gesture-based control, and the ability to run Android apps.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the Russian and Chinese governments have &#8220;essentially banned purchases of Windows computers as well as iOS and Android devices&#8221;, and the move to Sailfish is to lessen their dependence on &#8220;Western&#8221; operating systems like Android and iOS.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/189742-how-to-check-if-your-iphone-6s-needs-its-battery-replaced.html\">How to check if your iPhone 6s needs its battery replaced<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government has approved the use of the Jolla Sailfish mobile OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":189896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[36,13193,39992],"class_list":["post-189894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-active","tag-jolla","tag-jolla-sailfish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189898,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189894\/revisions\/189898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}