Cellucity, MTN, Vodacom, and Cell C have launched pre-registrations for the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge in South Africa.
Local prices have yet to be confirmed, but Samsung has revealed that South Africa will be among the first countries to receive the devices on 11 March 2016.
South Africans will also benefit from Samsung’s launch deal which includes a free Gear VR headset with all pre-orders.
Samsung has confirmed that our versions of the device will run on its Exynos 8 Octa 8890 processor, which has 4× 2.3GHz cores, and 4× 1.6GHz cores.
They will also support all of South Africa’s LTE networks, including Telkom’s TD-LTE network.
Pre-registrations for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, with a Gear VR, are now live with the following resellers:
Jan Vermeulen is a guest of Samsung at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona.
This article originally appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.
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