Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has dropped the price of the iPhone 4S. The new pre-paid prices according to an SMS the company sent are: iPhone 4S 16GB 2499 SR iPhone 4S 32GB 2899 SR iPhone 4S 64GB 3249 SR All iPhones sold by STC and Mobily are unlocked and has FaceTime disabled. Packages and plans has been updated as well: For more information: Official Saudi iPhone 4S Prices from Mobily, STC. You can find th ...

Apple has released an update for iPads, iPhones and iPod touches. iOS 5.1 offers many features and fixes including: Japanese language support for Siri (availability may be limited during initial rollout) Photos can now be deleted from Photo Stream Camera shortcut now always visible on Lock Screen for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation) Camera face detection now highlights all det ...

Tonight at 9 pm local Saudi time Apple will hold a special event to announce the third generation of the iPad. Here are some of the best websites to follow the event live: • The Mac Observer • gdgt • Engadget • The Verge • This Week In Tech video • The Loop • Techglued. You can find the author of this post on twitter: @khaled. Please follow SaudiMac on Twitter and add SaudiMac on Facebook and SaudiMac on Go ...

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The Loop reported that Apple will hold a special media event next Wednesday March 7th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Apple will most likely announce the iPad 3 during that event. Everyone is expecting a more powerful iPad with a "retina display" and 4G. We'll know next week. The event will be 9pm local Saudi Arabia time. You can find the author of this post on twitter: @khaled. Ple ...

Tareq from iPhoneIslam demonstrated an interesting security flaw in iPhones running iOS 5. The flaw was discovered by Safwan Saba and it allows you to access the address book, make phone calls and possibly send emails and messages in a locked iPhone. A similar flaw existed in iOS 4.1 and this flaw is a bit tricky to implement. As demonstrated in the following video: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhy9_bYVI ...

The "STC IOS Workshop" is a keynote and workshop about iOS development sponsored by STC and organized by CCIS & Future Technology Club. It will be held in Riyadh next Saturday February 25th. From the event website: Your perfect guide to develop on iOS Platform The expertise came for you, don’t miss this event. PART 1.. (9 am – 10:30 am): Keynote: Why Mobile Apps? success stories. what can you do to get ...

STC and Mobily (both official iPhone carriers) announced that they had meetings with Pascal Cagni, VP & GM of Apple Europe, Middle East, India and Asia. Mobily's press release didn't offer much info about the meeting. If I had to make a guess I'd say it's not about opening an Apple Store in Saudi Arabia. It's obviously iPhone related. We should note that Mr. Pascal has visited Saudi Arabia many times be ...

During the company's education event, Apple has launched the following education related apps: iBooks 2 adds support for "interactive textbooks", the iBookstore library now includes textbooks on various topics. iBooks 2.0 also includes: • Experience gorgeous Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPad • iBooks textbooks are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, and videos • Tap to dive into images ...

Not to be outdone by STC's midnight launch, Mobily is planning a midnight launch of the iPhone 4S in Saudi Arabia as well. Mobily will sell the iPhone 4S starting tonight at 12:00am (December 16) until 2:00 am. This will be the first "second" time we have a “midnight launch” in Saudi Arabia so if you’re attending make sure to take photos. Only "mega" branches in Jeddah (Thaliah St, across to Scico), Riyadh ...