{"id":250199,"date":"2018-06-07T11:55:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=250199"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:55:39","slug":"vodacom-launches-smart-kicka-4-smartphone-for-r399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/250199\/vodacom-launches-smart-kicka-4-smartphone-for-r399\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom launches Smart Kicka 4 smartphone for R399"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has partnered with Google to launch its first Android Go smartphones in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile operator launched its new devices including the Smart Kicka 4 (3G) as part of the Vodacom Vaya programme.<\/p>\n<p>The devices are priced below R1,000 and are part of the company\u2019s plan to migrate customers to 3G and 4G handsets.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom said that of the 30 million sub-R1,000 smartphones sold in South Africa, only half a million are 4G-enabled.<\/p>\n<p>The new smartphones which support Android 8.1 Go include:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Huawei Y3 2018 (4G): Price \u2013 R999<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Huawei.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250219\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Huawei.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Huawei.png 850w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Huawei-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Huawei-768x438.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Vodacom Smart Kicka 4 (3G): Price \u2013 R399<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Kicka.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250223\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Kicka.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Kicka.png 766w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Kicka-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vodacom first launched its low cost phone in 2014, the Smart Kicka, which cost R549 and ran on Android 4.4 KitKat. The phone included 4GB memory, a 3.5-inch screen, and a 2 mega-pixel camera.<\/p>\n<p>The device also included with five free 50 megabyte (MB) Power Bundles.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Vodacom also launched a series of promotions for its Android Go devices, which offer monthly data bundles and data for the lightweight YouTube Go application.<\/p>\n<p>4G Devices<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>200MB per month for three months.<\/li>\n<li>250MB YouTube Go daily data for three months.<\/li>\n<li>Customers will have to recharge with R29.00 every 30 days to unlock the data promotion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3G Devices<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100MB per month for three months.<\/li>\n<li>100MB YouTube Go daily data for three months.<\/li>\n<li>Customers will have to recharge with R12.00 every 30 days to unlock the data promotion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/248217\/whos-making-the-most-money-per-user-vodacom-vs-mtn-vs-cell-c-vs-telkom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who\u2019s making the most money per user: Vodacom vs MTN vs Cell C vs Telkom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has launched the Smart Kicka 4 (3G) as part of the Vodacom Vaya programme in partnership with Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":239215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[53,26,27],"class_list":["post-250199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250199","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=250199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250229,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250199\/revisions\/250229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}