{"id":32324,"date":"2011-08-24T12:28:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=32324"},"modified":"2011-08-24T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:37:11","slug":"cheaper-iphone-4-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/32324-cheaper-iphone-4-on-the-horizon.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper iPhone 4 on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Reuters report on low cost iPhone 4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/08\/23\/us-apple-iphone-idUSTRE77M1P220110823\" target=\"_blank\">According to Reuters<\/a>, <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple\u2019s<\/a> manufacturing partners are increasing production of a low cost version of the iPhone 4. The budget iPhone is set to have an 8GB flash drive as internal memory, and is poised for release in September 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has a history of reducing prices of older model iPhones down to $99 in the US market, allowing more users access to the device. This is a likely price point for the low cost iPhone 4 according to industry Analyst Brian Blair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A more affordable iPhone would allow] Apple and carriers to ease back on the device and service pricing and extend Apple\u2019s reach into new and lower consumer segments with only minimal cannibalization to the iPhone\u2019s high-end position,\u201d wrote Ittai Kidron, an Oppenheimer analyst, earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"All things D news site\" href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20110823\/apple-planning-cheaper-iphone-4\/\">All Things D<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple may launch a cheaper model of the iPhone 4 alongside its next generation iPhone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29372,"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":[17],"tags":[4040,4038,4042,1998],"class_list":["post-32324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-reuters","tag-brian-blair","tag-ittai-kidron","tag-rumour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32324"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32346,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32324\/revisions\/32346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}