Today Apple started selling the iPad mini 2 (with retina display) on their online stores. Apple also started selling the iPad Air as well as the iPad mini in the United Arab Emirates Online Store (Thanks Sharbeen). These models obviously will not offer FaceTime. Estimated delivery for the iPad Air: 5-7 days, the iPad mini Retina Display: 5-10 days. Prices: ...

Apple has announced that the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will be available in 35 countries on October 25 and in 16 countries on November 1. The countries are listed in Apple’s press release and it will be available in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and UAE on November 1, not the 4th as we reported yesterday. Image credit: BGR.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...