{"id":15170,"date":"2017-03-31T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T08:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=15170"},"modified":"2017-03-31T11:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T09:15:04","slug":"breaking-prices-of-smartphones-may-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/breaking-prices-of-smartphones-may-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Prices of smartphones may soar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inside source has informed us that there is a strong chance of the Minister of Technology, Naledi Pandor, being next on the chopping block. Now, the rumour mill is buzzing about the possibility of a dramatic rise in the prices of smartphones.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15174\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15174\" class=\"wp-image-15174 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Naledi-Pandor-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Naledi-Pandor-244x300.jpg 244w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Naledi-Pandor.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naledi Pandor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nothing has been confirmed, but it has been hinted that there could be as much as a 50% increase in the mid \u2013 and high-end \u2013 mobile market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are shocked at this development and are concerned about the impact that this disaster will have on mobile technology as a whole,\u201d says CEO of PriceCheck, Kevin Tucker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Consumers have already expressed horror at this unprecedented catastrophe. It\u2019s believed that the price surge may hit the market by mid-April.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll keep you updated as this news unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inside source has informed us that there is a strong chance of the Minister of Technology, Naledi Pandor, being next on the chopping block. Now, the rumour mill is buzzing about the possibility of a dramatic rise in the prices of smartphones. Nothing has been confirmed, but it has been hinted that there could<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/breaking-prices-of-smartphones-may-soar\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1868,1869,708],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Smartphone-Pile.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15170"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15172,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions\/15172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}