The iPhone X will launch in South Africa by mid-November, said Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub.<\/p>\n
His statement followed MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa saying that the iPhone X will likely be over R20,000 – probably around R23,000. Both were speaking at the 2017 MyBroadband Conference.<\/p>\n
This follows reports that entry-level contract prices for the iPhone X will be R999.<\/p>\n
News of the mid-November launch for the iPhone X in South Africa follows reports that Apple would struggle to meet demand<\/strong><\/a> for the device due to manufacturing delays.<\/p>\n Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities predicted Apple will have two to three million handsets available on launch day, and 25 million to 30 million units for the holiday quarter – down from his previous forecast of 40 million.<\/p>\n Apple unveiled two iPhone X models<\/strong><\/a> on 12 September – one with 64GB of storage for $999, and a 256GB model for $1,149.<\/p>\n The iPhone X is Apple\u2019s latest flagship smartphone, and features a 5.8-inch Super Retina OLED display.<\/p>\n It supports 3D Touch, HDR10, and Dolby Vision HDR standards, and features a resolution of 2,436 x 1,125 with a \u201cmillion-to-one\u201d contrast ratio.<\/p>\n The iPhone X will launch in South Africa in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":228837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[35061,35,41149,42,1958,41],"class_list":["post-234778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-godfrey-motsa","tag-headline","tag-iphone-x","tag-mtn","tag-shameel-joosub","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234788,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234778\/revisions\/234788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Apple to prepare 3 million iPhone X units for launch<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"