{"id":10666,"date":"2012-04-23T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=10666"},"modified":"2012-04-23T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:31:57","slug":"apples-sa-ipad-3-pricing-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/10666\/apples-sa-ipad-3-pricing-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s SA iPad 3 pricing announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Core Group<\/a>, official distributors of Apple<\/a> products in South Africa, has revealed what the damage to your credit card will be when the newest iPad model launches in South Africa on 27 April 2012.<\/p>\n

Apple revealed the South African launch date of the device on 16 April 2012, along with that of eight other countries.<\/p>\n

The Apple iPad makes up over half of the South African tablet market, according to Arthur Goldstuck<\/a>, MD of research firm World Wide Worx<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This new iPad is the third generation in Apple\u2019s popular tablet PC range and promises a number of improvements over the older model, chief among which is the high resolution \u201cRetina\u201d display.<\/p>\n

Previous models of the iPad came in Wi-Fi<\/a> and Wi-Fi + 3G<\/a> versions, but the iPad 3 adds support for LTE<\/a> networks in the US. Models with support for mobile broadband are marketed as Wi-Fi + 4G internationally, and this seems to be the case in South Africa as well.<\/p>\n

Core Group announced the following recommended retail prices for the new devices:<\/p>\n