إعلان جهاز Samsung Galaxy Note بعد التعديل عليه. [Via The Loop.]
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Blackberry services is back
That was fast. From Engadget: It took two long years for India to (allegedly) tap BlackBerry traffic, but Saudi Arabia may not have to wait nearly as long; the Wall Street Journal reports that RIM has all but agreed to set up a local server in the country. While we’ve no details yet on what
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Just like that, Blackberry services banned in Saudi Arabia by CITC
So it wasn’t just the “Blackberry Messenger” that will be banned in Saudi Arabia. According to this the CITC has expressed concerns about the BIS for a year and asked the local carriers (STC, Mobily and Zain) to “look into” the concerns and provide an alternative for 3 months! The three months end next Friday
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Blackberry Messenger is banned in Saudi Arabia (STC Confirms)
Looks like the CITC/MCIT has decided to ban the Blackberry messenger, the only feature used by a lot of people in Saudi Arabia. Here’s the piece on Reuters: Saudi telcos ordered to freeze Blackberry Messenger and Saudi Telecom confirms Blackberry Messenger ban-TV. There you go, STC confirmed it as well. Saudi media fails again in
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Flickr with Nokia Share Online in Saudi Arabia
I talked about it a long time ago and now I don’t care about Nokia I am using “Flickit Pro” for the iPhone. Anyway, The Maxer sent me this solution: this flickr_configuration_file.cfg file should work in Saudi Arabia with most Nokia phones including N97.
Native Arabic support for Google Android
STC was the first company to introduce an Android based cellphone in the region. The phone was the HTC Magic however native Arabic support is only available for Android OS 1.5 while the latest OS version for the Magic is 1.6 (HTC are working on 2.1 update to be released this year). Arabic support is
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iPhone 3GS by Etisalat October 27th
UAE’s Etisalat has posted on their website that the iPhone 3GS will be released on October 27th. This confirms what I said earlier that the iPhone 3GS by Mobily will be released on the same day. Follow SaudiMac (English) and (Arabic) sites for more updates. تابعوا آخر التحديثات من موقع سعودي ماك.
Flickr with Nokia Share Online 4.3
I have a Nokia N79, a very basic Symbian S60 phone. One of the frustrating things that the Share Online app (an app that allows me to upload media to web services) only listed 2 services: Vox and Ikbis. Flickr (the biggest online photo service) was not available for a number of countries including Saudi
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Nokia in Saudi Arabia: Screw the consumers
Update: This will happen again with the new Nokia N900 that will be released in Saudi Arabia soon. I had high hopes when Nokia decided to officially enter the Saudi Arabia market (through their Nokia Stores) that the prices of the Nokia phones will be reduced to more acceptable rates. But instead those Nokia stores
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Will the Palm Pre arrive to Saudi Arabia?
In case you didn’t know, in CES 2009 Palm announced their latest phone, the Palm Pre. You can watch the Palm Pre announcement video presented by Jon Rubinstein, an Executive Chairman at Palm and former head of hardware engineering at Apple. The US Palm Pre will be a CDMA phone, in other words it will
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