Last night, Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys tweeted that the iPhone 4 will be available in SA at the end of September.
The iPhone 4 was set for release in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan on 24 June 2010. However, delays had customers in these countries waiting until 14 July to get their hands on the gadget.
International release for a few select countries occurred in the last week of July. At the time, Apple promised rollout to an additional 88 countries at the end of September, but did not specify which countries these were.
Alan Hely, senior director of corporate communications at Apple, said no expected date could be given for a local release. However, World Wide Worx Strategy MD Steven Ambrose theorised that SA would be one of the 88 countries and would receive the iPhone 4 in September, brought in by Vodafone.
He said the delay would dilute the impact of the iPhone 4, because at that time the market would be flooded with new releases, from the new BlackBerry OS6 devices to Windows Phone 7 releases and Nokia's Symbian 3.
Uys added in the same tweet as the iPhone 4 announcement that the Samsung Galaxy S has just arrived in SA, and a few hours later, he noted that the Blackberry Torch should be in SA in October.
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