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 on the iPhone 5. Apple's Press Relea ...

Apple has changed the currency for the Saudi Arabia App Store from United States Dollars to Saudi Riyals. A few examples: a $0.99 app now costs SR 3.69 and a $19.99 now costs SR 74.99. The change happened with the UAE App Store and Dirhams. Other Arab countries still has US$ for their app prices. You can find the author of this post on twitter: @khaled. Follow SaudiMac updates on App.net, Twitter and Facebo ...

Rami Kayyali has compiled and compared the prices of products in the newly launched UAE Apple Store with the prices at the Apple US Store and Saudi Arabia's distributors. The results are interesting even though the comparison does not include taxes nor custom rates. UAE Apple Store vs Saudi Arabia Prices By comparing UAE Apple Online Store with Arab Computers and iPhone from Mobily, STC we notice: • UAE iPh ...

Apple has finally launched its first Online Store in the Middle East. The Emirates Apple Online Store is now open for business offering most Apple products including the iPhone (unlocked). You can also engrave iPods and iPads. Unfortunately these prices are a bit high compared to the US and Hong Kong Apple Stores. It's even more expensive than the "official" Saudi prices. A commenter on the Arabic site said ...

The new MacBook Air notebooks with ThunderBolt are available in the United Arab Emirates since August 11th. Unfortunately they are not available in Saudi Arabia from Arab Computers until the 27th of the month. The 2011 MacBook Air models' features include faster processors, ThunderBolt port and a backlit keyboard. Base models ship with an Intel Core i5 processor but you can upgrade to a 1.8GHz Dual-Core Int ...

Good news everyone, you no longer need to use questionable methods (such as installous) to download 17+ apps in Saudi Arabia because some of the 17+ apps has started to appear in the Saudi App Store. At least Opera mini is available right now. Other apps such as Atomic Web, iCab Mobile and Opera for Mac are still missing. A few months ago Apple removed all apps rated 17+ from the Saudi Arabia and United Ara ...

Following reports that quoted an Etisalat official speaking of the 5th generation iPhone being released this year, the company issued a statement claiming they did not confirm a 2011 5th generation iPhone launch. This is the original statement published on Gulf News: Yes, we are in talks with most smartphone manufacturers including Apple on the rollout of the 4G handset, iPhone 5 later this year. And this i ...

Gulf News reports that Ali Al Ahmad, Chief Corporate Communication Officer at etisalat, said: Yes, we are in talks with most smartphone manufacturers including Apple on the rollout of the 4G handset, iPhone 5 later this year. As the first telecom organisation to roll out the 4G network, LTE, in the Middle East, we have already started talking to them for the handsets and chipsets in them So it means we shou ...

Opera mini web browser for the iPhone was updated to be a Universal App with iPad support. Opera mini 6.0 also adds Arabic language support as well as Retina display support and general performance improvements. The app is available in most App Stores except two. Since Opera mini is rated 17+ "You must be at least 17 years old to download this app" that means that it's not available in the Saudi Arabia and ...

Last week Google added "Paid Android Market" access to 99 countries excluding major tech markets in the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt. These countries were left with the "free global Android Market" which includes most free Android apps (but no first party Google apps such as Gmail, Google Maps). Staring today many popular free Android apps were no longer available. Apps such as Adobe Flas ...