The latest generation of Apple’s iOS 7 toting smartphones, the iPhone 5S and 5C will be available in South Africa from the 15th of November.
Vodacom made the announcement this morning via Twitter.
Drum roll please…iPhone 5S and 5C will be here 15 Nov! RT if you heard it from Vodacom first. More info when we have it.
— Vodacom (@Vodacom) November 2, 2013
The phones, which were launched officially on the 20th of September, will come to South Africa a full month earlier than the iPhone 5 did, which only managed to make it to our shores on the 14th of December last year. The iPhone 5S looks very similar to last year’s iPhone 5 and uses Apple’s latest A7 processor along with a new fingerprint sensor to unlock the device and to authorise payments in the iTunes store. The iPhone 5C on the other hand is essentially the iPhone 5 in a colourful polycarbonate shell.
Vodacom has a pre-registration web page up which allows you to sign up for further information on the launch when it becomes available.
For those of you that are that are considering the upgrade but need to know a bit more about the iPhone 5S, you can read our extensive review of the phone.
Will you be going for the fancy fingerprint scanning iPhone 5S or are you considering splashing out on some bright colour with the iPhone 5C, let us know in the comments below.
UPDATE: MTN has confirmed that it will have the iPhone 5S and 5C available from the 15th of November as well:
MTN South Africa today announced it will offer iPhone 5s, the most forward-thinking smartphone in the world, and iPhone 5c, the most colorful iPhone yet, to customers beginning on 15 November 2013.
