Apple has unveiled the iPhone 4, but there is no indication of when SA can expect to receive this smartphone.
iPhone carrier Vodacom says: “Vodacom will launch iPhone 4, the thinnest smartphone in the world, with the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, in SA in the coming months.”
Executive head of corporate communications Richard Boorman says it has no further information on the South African release date other than to expect it in the coming months. “Bearing in mind that it's only June, I'd guess that based on 'in the coming months' it would be this year. I don't have any other details at this stage.”
He adds that no date has yet been given for the iPad's release in SA either.
Apple says the iPhone 4 will be available in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan on 24 June.
Overseas customers will be able to pre-order their iPhone 4 beginning Tuesday, 15 June, from the Apple Online Store, or reserve an iPhone 4 to pick up at an Apple Retail Store.
By the end of July, the smartphone will be available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, according to Apple.
It adds that the iPhone 4 will be rolled out worldwide to 88 countries by the end of September.
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