{"id":26743,"date":"2011-06-14T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=26743"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T07:28:51","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s-ii-availability-and-pricing-from-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/26743-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-availability-and-pricing-from-operators.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S II: availability and pricing from operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month ago (11 May 2011) Samsung estimated that they would be able to bring their latest Android \u201csuperphone,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/20206-samsung-galaxy-tablet-s2-pricing-and-availability-announced.html\">the Samsung Galaxy S II, to South Africa<\/a> in July 2011 for a price of R6,699.<\/p>\n<p>At the time the company warned that the prices and dates were estimates that may change.<\/p>\n<p>It also wasn&#8217;t specified whether the price estimate referred to the 16GB or 32GB models of the Samsung Galaxy S2, but the fact that the 16GB variant of the first Galaxy S (I9000) was available in SA at a similar price point suggests that Samsung was talking about the 16GB model.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s mobile operators have revealed what details they could of the upcoming launch of the device.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> said that they may have the device in early July, but couldn&#8217;t provide any pricing information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/213919-Cell-C\">Cell C<\/a> said that they expect the device in June and plan to sell it on a sub-R500 contract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\">MTN<\/a> said that their target date is for June\/July 2011 and provided the following approximate prices for packages that include the Samsung Galaxy S2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MTN 100: R319.00<\/li>\n<li>MTN 200: R379.00<\/li>\n<li>MTN 350: R479.00<\/li>\n<li>MTN 500: R609.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/309707-Virgin-Mobile\">Virgin mobile<\/a> provided the following package details for the device, saying that they valued it at R6,099 and plan to have it available in July.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Classic 300 contract:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starter pack included<\/li>\n<li>1000 Free SMSs  worth R600 per month<\/li>\n<li>Airtime = R300 for calls or data<\/li>\n<li>R320 per month x 24<\/li>\n<li>R20 mandatory itemised billing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s mobile operators reveal when they plan to release Samsung&#8217;s Android powerhouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":26745,"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":[14,29],"tags":[355,1061,35,42,645,1117,1119,41],"class_list":["post-26743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","category-gadgets","tag-cell-c","tag-galaxy-s-ii","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy-s-ii","tag-virgin-mobile","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743"}],"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=26743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26747,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743\/revisions\/26747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}