{"id":39797,"date":"2011-12-14T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T11:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39797"},"modified":"2011-12-15T08:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T06:05:54","slug":"smartphone-war-latest-vodacom-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/39797-smartphone-war-latest-vodacom-stats.html","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone war: latest Vodacom stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest smartphone statistics on the Vodacom<\/a> network show that BlackBerry<\/a> is extending its lead over its main rivals \u2013 Apple\u2019s<\/a> iPhone and Android<\/a> devices.<\/p>\n

Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys<\/a> revealed that they currently have 4.1 million smartphones on their network, with very strong growth expected over the next few years.<\/p>\n

BlackBerry leads the pack with 1.6 million active devices on the Vodacom network, followed by 220,000 iPhones and around 200,000 Android devices.<\/p>\n

Of the 220,000 iPhones on the Vodacom network, 120,000 are iPhone 4 devices while 100,000 are iPhone 3 and earlier variants.<\/p>\n

However, South Africa is something of an anomaly in the global smartphone market. While BlackBerry sales slumped globally, local sales are as high as ever.<\/p>\n

Since April 2011 Vodacom sold 600,000 BlackBerry phones, far higher than the 70,000 iPhones and 100,000 Android devices added over the last seven months.<\/p>\n

iPhone and Android should however get a boost in numbers over the next few months with the launch of the iPhone 4S in South Africa and the latest Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich.<\/p>\n

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iPhone vs BlackBerry vs Android<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Latest smartphone statistics on the Vodacom network sheds light on the big smartphone winner in SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37719,"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],"tags":[397,97,35,1125,281],"class_list":["post-39797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-android","tag-blackberry","tag-headline","tag-iphone","tag-pieter-uys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39889,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797\/revisions\/39889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}