{"id":70919,"date":"2014-10-14T15:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=70919"},"modified":"2014-10-14T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:20:14","slug":"vodacom-to-launch-sub-r1500-lte-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/70919\/vodacom-to-launch-sub-r1500-lte-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom to launch sub-R1,500 LTE smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has announced plans to launch a new branded smartphone with Long Term Evolution (LTE) support \u2013 called the Vodafone Turbo \u2013 for below R1,500.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vodacom, it is busy pushing to have its own brand associated with the Turbo locally, but it will finalise those details later.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile network operator did not disclose specifications and contract deal information, but did say that the device is currently in testing.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, the Vodafone Turbo could be available before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom currently offers its own LTE-capable Android smartphone, the Vodafone Smart 4 Power, for R2,759.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile operator also recently launched its own tablet PC, the Vodacom Smart Tab 3G, for R999.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Neotel spectrum not enough for 4G: Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/69807\/neotel-spectrum-not-enough-for-4g-vodacom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Neotel spectrum not enough for 4G: Vodacom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom targets $25 phone\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/69503\/vodacom-targets-25-phone\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom targets $25 phone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom\u2019s acquisition plans\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/69483\/vodacoms-acquistion-plans\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom\u2019s acquisition plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom keen on street pole cell towers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/69421\/vodacom-keen-on-street-pole-cell-towers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom keen on street pole cell towers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has announced plans to launch a new branded smartphone with Long Term Evolution (LTE) support \u2013 called the Vodafone Turbo \u2013 for below R1,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":64153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,525,27],"class_list":["post-70919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-lte","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70919","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70921,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70919\/revisions\/70921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}