{"id":38349,"date":"2011-11-18T03:54:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T01:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=38349"},"modified":"2011-11-18T03:55:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T01:55:58","slug":"blackberry-special-pricing-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/38349-blackberry-special-pricing-comparison.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry special pricing comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

BlackBerry is considered South Africa\u2019s most popular smartphone platform (and brand) – a position that is largely driven by the flat-rated Internet package available on BlackBerry smartphones known as BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service).<\/p>\n

Google backed up this intuition with survey results earlier this month (November 2011) when it revealed that BlackBerry has 44% of the South African smartphone market share.<\/p>\n

This followed the findings of surveys from earlier in the year, one by World Wide Worx and Dashboard, the other by Nielsens. Results from both surveys showed that BlackBerry had a low share in the greater cellphone market, but that a large number of individuals wanted a BlackBerry as their next device.<\/p>\n

With mobile operators beginning to launch their summer specials, prospective BlackBerry owners may be interested in seeing which operator has the cheapest deals around.<\/p>\n

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Cheapest BlackBerry deals: November 2011<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
BlackBerry model<\/th>\nContract<\/th>\nPrice<\/th>\nExtras<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
BlackBerry Curve 8520<\/td>\n8ta Contract 1<\/td>\nR90 x 3 months, R139 x 21 months<\/td>\n500MB YouTube streaming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BlackBerry Curve 8520<\/td>\nVodacom Top Up 135 – Vodacom World only<\/td>\nR149 x 24 months<\/td>\nKNR soft shell pouch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BlackBerry Curve 8520<\/td>\nCell C BlackBerry Casual Chat 100<\/td>\nR129 x 24 months excluding<\/em> BIS (R57 p\/m)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BlackBerry Curve 8520<\/td>\nMTN AnyTime TopUp 100<\/td>\nR159 x 24 months<\/td>\n25 SMSes (once off)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BlackBerry Curve 9300<\/td>\nCell C BlackBerry Casual Chat 100<\/td>\nR169 x 24 months<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BlackBerry Curve 8520<\/td>\nVodacom Top Up 135<\/td>\nR169 x 24 months<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

8ta\u2019s deal on the BlackBerry Curve 8520 is quite attractive, but buyers should consider what they want from a BlackBerry contract (minutes, SMSes, etc.) when evaluating the various offers.<\/p>\n

Cell C\u2019s Curve 8520 contract was thoroughly disappointing, but they make up for it with a solid deal on the BlackBerry Curve 9300, which has support for 3G.<\/p>\n

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BlackBerry Curve hot summer deals: November 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

What is most disappointing about these specials, however, is that Vodacom had the BlackBerry Curve 8520 available on contracts<\/a> for R99 and R129 per month earlier this year.<\/p>\n

While the 8ta deal comes close, none of the current summer deals (including Vodacom\u2019s) quite measure up to the bar that had previously been set by the red operator.<\/p>\n

Related articles<\/h3>\n

Top mobile phones in SA: Nielsen Mobile Insights 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Most popular phones in SA<\/a><\/p>\n

Best BlackBerry bang for your buck<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mirror mirror on the wall, who has the cheapest BlackBerry (contract) of them all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":24769,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[97,4026,6725,35,1990,6182],"class_list":["post-38349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-blackberry","tag-blackberry-curve","tag-blackberry-pricing-comparison","tag-headline","tag-pricing-comparison","tag-smartphone-pricing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349"}],"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=38349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38353,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions\/38353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}