As promised by Mobily's CIO, iPhone tethering is now available in Saudi Arabia by Mobily. The service is free to activate, usual data rates apply. Make sure to download the latest carrier settings via iTunes: connect the iPhone, click "Check for Update", you should get a dialog similar to this: To enable tethering go to Settings, General, Network, Internet Tethering, slide to ON. You can connect using the U ...

Mobily's CIO (Chief information officer) Mr. Medhat Amer announced on twitter that Tethering is coming to the iPhone this month (February 2010). Tethering was introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 but iPhone OS 3.1 disabled the tethering trick. The only way to get tethering on the iPhone is either jailbreaking or waiting for an official update from Mobily. We will post more info as soon as the tethering update is rel ...

We are always happy to help iPhone owners, unlike Mobily who doesn't seem to know how to handle the iPhone 3G. Here are the iPhone 3G data & MMS settings for a prepaid Mobily number: Access Point Name (APN): web2 MMS settings: APN: mms2 Username: blank Password: blank MMSC : http://10.3.3.133:9090/was MMS Proxy: 010.003.002.133:8080 As for postpaid Mobily numbers, the settings are: Access Point Name (APN): ...

Pieter from Leiden, The Netherlands has left his iPhone 3G in his car and found smoke in his car. The smoke caused by a burning passenger seat started by the iPhone 3G (with a Belkin case). Pieter has contact Apple and T-Mobile in the Netherlands and both refused to take responsibility. iPhone owners in Saudi Arabia should be extra careful about forgetting their iPhones in their cars in this hot Saudi Summe ...

"Issues with the Saudi iPhone" series returns. Last time we talked about the lack of Arabic in the Apple iPhone and now we finally have Arabic support on iPhone 3.0 software. Let's talk about another major issue with the iPhone 3G in Saudi Arabia: Mobily. Some can say that UAE's Etisalat have similar issues. The locked iPhone 3G Mobily employees from day 1 continue to claim that the iPhone 3G sold by them i ...

One of the features of the iPhone 3G is "visual voicemail" which lists all of your voice messages and play them in any order that you want instead of sequentially. On Mobily's website visual voicemail is listed as an iPhone 3G feature. However on this official knowledge base article Mobily doesn't have visual voicemail supported. Is this false advertisement or is Mobily actually working on visual voicemail? ...

Apple published in a knowledge base article that compared the different iPhone models with 3.0 software update and which feature is available on which model. Thanks to 9to5mac. ...

Mobily Connect is Mobily's broadband Internet service which is available for all Mobily customers. The current iPhone 3G bundles are very limited so it's best to increase the bandwidth by adding Mobily connect packages. You can add packages to your current iPhone 3G packages. So if you have a 99 package (99SR monthly and 200MB bandwidth) then added a 1GB package then you will pay 199SR and get 1.2GB bandwid ...

UPDATE: We just added a guide on how to enable tethering on iPhone 3G with Mobily (and even STC). iPhone 3.0 software was finally released yesterday and one of the new features is "Internet Tethering". Enabling tethering with Mobily is not possible according to this image: I contacted Mobily's support and the employee told me to install "pdanet"! PDAnet is a jailbroken application for the iPhone! Let me say ...

Apple will be releasing iPhone 3.0 software today June 17th 2009. The update will work on all iPhone and iPod touch models. Arabic support After 2 years of the release of the iPhone Apple has finally added Arabic support. Before the release of iPhone 3.0 software you had to jailbreak the iPhone then install this application to add Arabic support. Now to enable Arabic just follow these steps: Go to Settings, ...