{"id":48097,"date":"2012-12-04T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=48097"},"modified":"2012-12-04T08:27:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T06:27:21","slug":"iphone-5-sa-launch-date-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/48097-iphone-5-sa-launch-date-revealed","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 5 SA launch date revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will be among more than 50 countries to receive the iPhone 5 on 14 December 2012, Apple announced in a press statement today (3 December 2012).<\/p>\n<p>This is in-line with the expected local launch windows of the device, as the iPhone 4S also had a mid-December launch date in South Africa last year (2011) after being announced in October.<\/p>\n<p>A larger display and Long Term Evolution (LTE) support are among the features boasted by the device, though LTE is unlikely to work in SA at launch.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 5 comes in either black &amp; slate or white &amp; silver for a suggested contract pay-in retail price in the US of $199 for the 16GB model, $299 for the 32GB model, and $399 for the 64GB model.<\/p>\n<p>Apple also lists contract-free pricing on its website: $649 for the 16GB model,\u00a0$749 for the 32GB model, and $849 for the 64GB model.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47725-sa-developed-bladeslinger-out-now-on-ios.html\">SA-developed Bladeslinger out now on iOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48036-the-walking-dead-assault-is-a-new-strategy-game-for-ios.html\">The Walking Dead: Assault is a new strategy game for iOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47969-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-delayed-for-ios.html\">Baldur\u2019s Gate: Enhanced Edition delayed for iOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/47474-5-kickstarter-game-projects-doomed-to-fail.html\">5 Kickstarter game projects doomed to fail<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has announced the launch date of the iPhone 5 in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":48098,"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],"tags":[959,21,6611,7990,7989],"class_list":["post-48097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-apple","tag-headline","tag-iphone-5","tag-iphone-5-release-date","tag-iphone-5-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48097","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}