Apple has announced that the iPhone 5 will officially launch in a significant number of countries on Friday December 14th. Including the following Middle Eastern countries: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar. Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and others will get it Friday December 21st. As far as we know only Zain Saudi Arabia will support 4G LTE ...

VIVA Telecom in Kuwait has announced on Twitter that they will officially start selling the iPhone 4S in Kuwait on Friday December 16th. The iPhone 4S will be available in a number of countries including Saudi Arabia on December 16th. You can find the author of this post on twitter: @khaled. Arabic version of this post on SaudiMac Arabic Edition. ...

Zain Kuwait has started selling the Apple iPhone 4 two months after VIVA Kuwait. With that the iPhone is now officially available from 2 Kuwaiti carriers. Zain first announced the iPhone 4 deal in January. FaceTime is available in these iPhone 4 units according to Zain’s website. I expect units sold carry the model numbers MC606AE, MC605AE, MC604AE and MC603AE ...

VIVA, a telecommunication company in Kuwait that is affiliated with STC, has finally launched the iPhone 4 in Kuwait. With that VIVA has became Kuwait’s first official iPhone carrier. And according to the company’s website FaceTime does work: So you can Facetime with your loved ones and watch in detail every wink, tear or smile as it happens. There are ...

Both VIVA Kuwait and VIVA Bahrain announced the official availability of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet in the Middle East. However VIVS’s partner in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Telecom Company – STC, did not announce anything. The Arabic VIVA Kuwait’s press release included comments on how the Galaxy Tab is designed to support Arabic while the English press release had no mention ...

VIVA, a telecommunication company in Kuwait that is affiliated with STC, has announced that they will officially release the iPhone 4 in Kuwait. Similar to STC’s iPhone 4 non-announcement no release date was announced and VIVA is yet to be listed on Apple’s Kuwait website. We expect VIVA Bahrain will announce something similar regarding the iPhone 4 release in Bahrain ...

During yesterday’s Back to the Mac event Apple released the FaceTime app for Macs running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Now you can have visual calls directly with iPhone 4 (needs iOS 4.1) and iPod touch 4G. FaceTime is in beta and you can download it from Apple’s site. Even though it works in Saudi Arabia when you go to ...

SaudiMac does not recommend buying from non-trusted sellers. Careful from Scams. Here’s a quick update on the Apple iPad availability in the region. Saudi Arabia Itechia offered reservations and now they have announced that the iPad is now available: The poster said: “Don’t worry, we brought it”. Make sure to contact itechia via their website. Update: If you reserved an ...

The new aluminum MacBooks are now available in Kuwait. At a store called “Al-Ghanim Electronics”. They are priced over KD 700 (9,717 SR) which is even more expensive than the MacBook Pro sold in Riyadh at Itechia! From 3baid’s blog: Anything Goes.