United Arab Emirates' second cellular carrier du has announced that they will sell the iPhone 3GS. Customers can pre-book their iPhones from du by visiting this page on October 17th. This move could be the result of a partnership between Vodafone and du. Etisalat, UAE's first carrier and Mobily's partner, has also announced that they are releasing the iPhone 3GS and you can pre-book it from by following the ...

Executive Director of Product Marketing in UAE's Etisalat, Omar al-Muzaki, told daily newspaper Al Emarat Al Youm that "Etisalat is preparing to released the iPhone 3GS in the UAE market before the end of this month". The article called the iPhone company "elppA" and the Blackberry company "Black Berry", not RIM. The article also mentions that there are 30,000 iphone users in UAE. Additionally Mr. Omar also ...

UAE's Etisalat has reduced the price of the iPhone 3G as well as some plans. The company also introduced two new data-only plans. The postpaid iPhone 3G price did not change but the plans were dropped from AED199 to AED99, AED299 to AED249 and AED499 to AED449. As for prepaid plans: iPhone 3G 8GB dropped from AED2,680 to AED2,399 and iPhone 3G 16GB from AED3,055 to AED2,775. Which is closer to Mobily's curr ...

Shufflegazine will be covering the midnight launch of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in the United Arab Emirates. The event will be at iStyle stores in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I have contacted iStyle in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah branch) and asked them about Snow Leopard, they told me that Snow Leopard will be released in the United States after 2 days and it was not released! At the same moment Snow Leopard is being so ...

Du's CEO Osman Sultan told Albayan newspaper today that Du will release the iPhone "soon". UAE's Etisalat is currently the exclusive iPhone seller in the Arab Emirates and Apple's UAE iPhone page is only showing Etisalat at the moment. If Du gets the iPhone then that will open the Saudi Arabia market for either STC or Zain to release the iPhone as well. Source and Image: via Shufflegazine. ...

I have been curious about Apple's AppleCare. It is Apple's support solution that extends the complimentary coverage on your Mac to three years from the computer’s purchase date. But looking at AppleCare Protection Plan Terms and Conditions, under Europe, Middle East and Africa. I found this PDF file with the following: This Plan is offered and valid only in Austria, Belgium, Denmark (excluding Greenland and ...

Etisalat announced the availability of "prepaid" iPhone 3G plan in the UAE. The iPhone 3G 8GB will cost AED 3,121 and the 16GB model for AED 3,570. Just like Saudi Arabia, it includes free 250MB of data for the first 6 months. Saudi Arabia's Mobily already had a similar "prepaid" plan: same 250MB data for the first 6 months. The 8GB model for 2,400SR and 16GB for 2,800SR. Significantly cheaper that the UAE. ...

Update: The iPhone 3GS from Mobily is unlocked too. You can use STC's SIM cards. I have been receiving e-mails stating that Mobily employees are claiming that the iPhone 3G is locked to the Mobily SIM cards. Other employees claim that the next iPhone 3G shipments will be SIM locked. We and others tested the iPhone 3G and we confirmed that it is not locked to Mobily SIM cards. Apparently that was not enough. ...

I have tested my brand new Mobily iPhone 3G with an STC SIM card and it worked. AhmadT tested it, too and in the UAE Shufflegazine tested the Etisalat iPhone 3G and it's unlocked as well. So you can simply buy the iPhone 3G and switch the SIM card to the carrier of your choice. You will still be paying for a 12 month plan however you can put that SIM card in another phone if you want. This will have an inte ...

In today's Okaz newspaper, an ad for the upcoming iPhone 3G release in Saudi Arabia and UAE by Mobily/Etisalat. Update: added a new photo that I have taken and uploaded to flickr. Image from Milyani. ...