{"id":211314,"date":"2026-02-08T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/this-state-is-trying-to-make-android-its-official-mobile-operating-system\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:30:10","slug":"this-state-is-trying-to-make-android-its-official-mobile-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/this-state-is-trying-to-make-android-its-official-mobile-operating-system\/","title":{"rendered":"This State Is Trying To Make Android Its Official Mobile Operating System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2092597\/android-become-official-mobile-operating-system-bill-utah\/\">This State Is Trying To Make Android Its Official Mobile Operating System<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2092597\/android-become-official-mobile-operating-system-bill-utah\/\">https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2092597\/android-become-official-mobile-operating-system-bill-utah\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-08 12:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bgr.com\">www.bgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Belikova Oksana\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Humans have long embroiled themselves in surface-level disagreements, with contemporary high-profile examples in tech including the console wars, Linux vs. Windows debates, and the long-standing Android vs. iOS rivalry. That idea has been taken to the next level by Utah State Sen. Kirk Cullimore, R-Sandy, who has proposed\u00a0a real bill\u00a0to designate Android as the state&#8217;s official mobile operating system.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By sponsoring the bill, Sen. Cullimore may or may not have meant to signal that everyone in Utah should switch to Android. During a press meeting, as reported by KSL Utah news, Sen. Cullimore said: &#8220;Someday, everybody with an iPhone will realize that the technology is better on Android.&#8221; However, he went on to say he&#8217;s the only one in his immediate family who uses Android.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tongue-in-cheek senatorial comments aside, if you happen to live in Utah and feel you should prepare for the potential legislation of your mobile operating system someday, you&#8217;re in luck \u2014 there&#8217;s a list of every major Android phone brand ranked from worst to best\u00a0you can check out to help you make the switch.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">What does it mean for Android to be a state symbol, anyway?<\/h2>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/this-state-is-trying-to-make-android-its-official-mobile-operating-system\/what-does-it-mean-for-android-to-be-a-state-symbol-anyway-1770149421.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2092597\/android-become-official-mobile-operating-system-bill-utah\/\" data-post-id=\"2092597\" data-slide-num=\"1\" data-slide-title=\"This State Is Trying To Make Android Its Official Mobile Operating System: What does it mean for Android to be a state symbol, anyway?\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Person holding up a smartphone featuring the Android logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>          &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2092597\/android-become-official-mobile-operating-system-bill-utah\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This State Is Trying To Make Android Its Official Mobile Operating System https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2092597\/android-become-official-mobile-operating-system-bill-utah\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/this-state-is-trying-to-make-android-its-official-mobile-operating-system\/l-intro-1770149419.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211316,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211314\/revisions\/211316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}