{"id":36500,"date":"2012-04-23T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36500"},"modified":"2012-04-23T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:20:22","slug":"the-new-ipad-3-pricing-revealed-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36500-the-new-ipad-3-pricing-revealed-for-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"The new iPad 3 pricing revealed for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Core Group\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306215-Core-Group\">Core Group<\/a>, official distributors of <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> products in South Africa, has revealed what the damage to your credit card will be when the newest iPad model launches in South Africa on 27 April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Apple revealed the South African launch date of the device on 16 April 2012, along with that of eight other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Apple iPad makes up over half of the South African tablet market, according to <a title=\"Arthur Goldstuck\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221541-Arthur-Goldstuck\">Arthur Goldstuck<\/a>, MD of research firm <a title=\"World Wide Worx\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307751-World-Wide-Worx\">World Wide Worx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This new iPad is the third generation in Apple\u2019s popular tablet PC range and promises a number of improvements over the older model, chief among which is the high resolution \u201cRetina\u201d display.<\/p>\n<p>Previous models of the iPad came in <a title=\"Wi-Fi\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289151-Wi-Fi\">Wi-Fi<\/a> and Wi-Fi + <a title=\"3G\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224878-3G\">3G<\/a> versions, but the iPad 3 adds support for <a title=\"LTE\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367212-Long-term-Evolution-(LTE)\">LTE<\/a> networks in the US. Models with support for mobile broadband are marketed as Wi-Fi + 4G internationally, and this seems to be the case in South Africa as well.<\/p>\n<p>Core Group announced the following recommended retail prices for the new devices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16GB Wi-Fi: R4,999<\/li>\n<li>32GB Wi-Fi: R5,999<\/li>\n<li>64GB Wi-Fi: R6,999<\/li>\n<li>16 GB Wi-Fi + 4G: R6,299<\/li>\n<li>32 GB Wi-Fi + 4G: R7,299<\/li>\n<li>64 GB Wi-Fi + 4G: R8,299<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"New iPad 3 hits SA this month\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/47940-new-ipad-3-hits-sa-this-month.html\"><strong>New iPad 3 hits SA this month<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Best iPad 3 prices in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/47670-best-ipad-3-prices-in-sa.html\"><strong>Best iPad 3 prices in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iPad versus Android tablets: Surprising stats for SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/47084-ipad-versus-android-tablets-surprising-stats-for-sa.html\"><strong>iPad versus Android tablets: Surprising stats for SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local recommended retail pricing of the new iPad has been confirmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":33762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[959,1907,21,1845,3744],"class_list":["post-36500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-core-group","tag-headline","tag-ipad-3","tag-tablet-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36502,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36500\/revisions\/36502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}