{"id":19902,"date":"2012-08-20T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T11:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=19902"},"modified":"2012-08-20T13:30:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T11:30:21","slug":"hisense-takes-aim-at-mobile-market-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/19902\/hisense-takes-aim-at-mobile-market-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hisense takes aim at mobile market in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese appliance-maker Hisense will launch its range of smartphones in South Africa next month (September).<\/p>\n<p>On its website hisense.co.za, the firm highlights its HS-U8 android 2.3 smartphone as a product \u201ccoming soon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing director at Hisense SA, Tony Shi told BusinessTech: \u201cOur plan is to launch it (cellphone) in the month of September. It is our smartphone which has a lot of applications that are found on the android system. We sold 8-million units all over the world last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group also has a &#8220;TV tablet&#8221; on the market, a devise that operates primarily as a portable TV, but also functions as a tablet with a built in TV chip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have it on all networks and all leading consumer electronics stores. It is on sale in the USA, Europe, Middle East, China and now Africa,\u201d Shi said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/19906\/hisense-aiming-for-top-3-brand-status-in-sa\/\"><strong>Hisense aiming for top 3 brand status in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Amap sells property to Hisense SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/19016\/amalgamated-appliance-sells-property\/\"><strong>Amap sells property to Hisense SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese appliance-maker Hisense will launch its range of smartphones in South Africa next month (September).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[685,3841,26,3715,227,3840,1407],"class_list":["post-19902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-android","tag-appliances","tag-headline","tag-hisense","tag-smartphone","tag-tony-shi","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19902"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20306,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions\/20306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}