Update on 12 February 2011: Here are STC’s iPhone 4 prices. Update (September 26 2010): Here are Mobily’s official iPhone 4 prices. Apple’s policy with their hardware prices is simple: release new products at the same price as the previous generation. iPhone 3GS was sold at the same price of the iPhone 3G. The iPhone 4 will cost the same ...
Read More »STC selling the iPad, or are they?
SALE is a “closed Joint Stock Company founded to lead distribution services for Saudi Telecom Company (STC). Aiming to refine distribution of Al Jawal Services (Recharge, Electronic Recharge and SIM Cards) and gain from economies of scale, the consortium of Interkey, Zajoul, ATC (Salam), Vodatel, i2, Horizon Orbit, Nasco, Al Shaikh and Network Lines officially came to exist as a ...
Read More »Posts of April 2010
April 2010 is the month of the Apple iPad. I have been using mine for 4 weeks now and am very happy with it. Let’s start with iPad only links first, shall we? iPad posts iPad review from USA Today Andy Ihnatko from Chicago Sun Times reviews the iPad iPad review by Walt Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal iPad ...
Read More »Nokia N8: Close & Personal
Got a great chance to take a close look at Nokia’s awaited new phone the N8, which should be available in the Saudi Arabia market somewhere around August. The new Nokia N8 has so many cool features like the 12MP Carl Zeiss camera, a 16:9 nHD OLED screen, HDMI port, and direct micro USB connector, among many cool features, but ...
Read More »Organize your MagSafe Power Adapter with PowerCurl
The PowerCurl helps you organize your MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air’s MagSafe Power Adapter cables. Waleed Jameel at Shufflegazine reviewed the PowerCurl: I have been using the Power Curl for six months now and have had a great positive experience. So much so in fact that when my colleague got her first MacBook recently, this was my gift to ...
Read More »Link: Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself
An interesting read about the relationship between Adobe and Apple between 1996 and 2010. Adobe made a wrong bet in 1996 and is suffering the consequences in 2010 and has no one to blame except themselves. It’s Adobe’s turn to show that it matters to Apple and the tech industry. I don’t remember Apple or Steve Jobs whining in 1996-2006 ...
Read More »Apple iPad: Bigger Than Life
Well finally the wait is over, Apple delivered the iPad on the 3rd of April as promised, and I got mine delivered on the 8th, given the fact that my iPad flew all the way from China to the US, visited France, the UAE, till it reached my hands in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. Now I am sure by now that ...
Read More »Posts of March 2010
First of all we would like to thank all of you for your continued support. SaudiMac being featured on CNN will help increase awareness of the Mac Community in Saudi Arabia. We are doing something different as we will include a list of the Arabic site‘s posts of the month as well. Continuing the series of Posts of the Month. ...
Read More »iPad Questions and Answers – part 1
Khalid Alaraifi was kind enough to accept questions about the Apple iPad and he will answer based on his experience with the device. I asked the members of the facebook page to submit their questions about the iPad and I forwarded them to Khalid. He sent me the answers in Arabic and I have translated them to English as well. ...
Read More »Why you should not buy an iPhone from Jarir and others
The iPhone 3GS has launched in Saudi Arabia last November by Mobily but that did not stop gray market iPhones from being sold in the market and at a higher price from the official iPhone distributor. I have noticed that Jarir Bookstore (honestly, where are the books?) have started selling the iPhone 3GS in Saudi Arabia. The iPhone 3GS 16GB ...
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