{"id":209599,"date":"2017-11-07T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=209599"},"modified":"2017-11-07T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:22:47","slug":"iphone-x-south-african-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/209599\/iphone-x-south-african-release-date-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone X South African release date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has announced that the iPhone X will be available in South Africa before the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release on its official website, the phone will be available to its customers in\u00a0Albania, Bosnia, Cambodia, Kosovo, Macau, Macedonia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Serbia, <strong>South Africa<\/strong>, South Korea, Thailand\u00a0and\u00a0Turkey<strong> on 24 November<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It further confirmed that the phone will be\u00a0available in silver and space gray in 64GB and 256GB models starting at\u00a0$999\u00a0(US) from\u00a0apple.com, Apple Stores and through Apple Authorized Resellers and carriers &#8211; although prices may vary.<\/p>\n<p>MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa had previously been <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/234778-iphone-x-launch-window-on-vodacom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported <\/a><\/strong>saying that the iPhone X will likely be over R20,000 \u2013 probably around R23,000.<\/p>\n<p>This follows reports that entry-level contract prices for the iPhone X will be R999 per month.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s mobile operators are expected to give official pricing and specific release dates shortly.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/209483\/vodacom-and-nokia-to-trial-5g-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vodacom and Nokia to trial 5G in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has announced that the iPhone X will be available in South Africa before the end of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12549],"class_list":["post-209599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-iphone-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209599","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209605,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209599\/revisions\/209605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}