{"id":69340,"date":"2013-01-28T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T08:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69340"},"modified":"2013-01-28T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T08:42:28","slug":"blackberry-10-sa-launch-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/69340-blackberry-10-sa-launch-window.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry 10 SA launch window"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smartphones running the new BlackBerry<\/a> 10 OS will not be available in South Africa immediately after the launch event scheduled for 30 January 2013, industry sources have told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

Operators will likely receive stock of BlackBerry 10 devices by the middle of February 2013, with the phones set to become available towards the end of the month.<\/p>\n

Similar rumours have emerged in Canada, where BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM<\/a>) is based. CrackBerry reported that the rumours there are that BB10 devices will be available from Telus and Bell in Canada on 5 February 2013.<\/p>\n

There is little confirmed information about the upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones, though there have been purported leaks of images of two devices: one with a QWERTY keyboard and with only a touch screen.<\/p>\n

MTN<\/a> and Vodacom<\/a> have both said that further information will only be revealed closer to launch, while Cell C<\/a> previously announced that it would offer BB10 devices \u201cearly in 2013 following the global launch announcement\u201d.<\/p>\n

8ta<\/a> did not respond to requests for information by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

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The SA launch of BlackBerry 10 devices is expected to be soon after the global launch announcement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":67396,"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":[29],"tags":[97,10144,35,937],"class_list":["post-69340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-blackberry","tag-blackberry-10","tag-headline","tag-research-in-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69340"}],"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=69340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69374,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69340\/revisions\/69374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}