The iPhone 3G is finally in Saudi Arabia and is provided by Mobily. Here’s what you need to know: The Bundles Mobily first announced these 4 bundles and two of those “prepaid” plans did not make any sense! A few days later they provided 6 more “postpaid” bundles. However they omitted one small requirement for
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What you need to know about the iPhone 3G in Saudi Arabia
iPhone 3G in Saudi Arabia
So I said I will probably not buy the iPhone 3G from Mobily but I went today to check it out. After thinking about it I decided to buy the iPhone 3G 8GB with a prepaid 1 year plan. It cost 2255SR and 99SR monthly prepaid. My reasons are: I transferred my number to Mobily,
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Mobily’s unimpressive iPhone 3G prices in Saudi Arabia
I am very disturbed by the leaked Mobily iPhone 3G pricing in Saudi Arabia. You pay $595 (2255SR) with a 1 year contract ($26 monthly) for the 8GB and you only get 199MB monthly data! UAE’s Etisalat’s offers are more serious as they offer the iPhone 3G 8GB starting at 0 AED (with 1 year
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Mobily accepting iPhone 3G reservations
Now you reserve your iPhone 3G in Saudi Arabia from Mobily by filling the form located here. (via Shufflegazine). Another thing to note. According to @thamood on twitter: Mobily assured him that they will release the iPhone 3G this Saturday!
Official iPhone 3G in Saudi Arabia and UAE
Etisalat in UAE/Mobily in Saudi Arabia announced that they will release the iPhone 3G by the end of February 2008. No news about Arabic support though.
Saudi TechView on your iPhone/iPod Touch
I have just installed WPtouch plugin for WordPress that creates an iPhone/iPod Touch version of this site. You can still switch to the normal site by clicking on “Normal View” at the bottom of the page.
Don’t be fooled by the iPhone 3G sellers in Saudi Arabia
I just got an SMS from a person (or probably a store) named T-Virus, it is from the game series “Resident Evil”. The message said the following (in Arabic, I translated): Arabic iPhone 3G has arrived. 8GB 4599SR. 16GB 4999SR. T: 92000XXXX M: 055161XXXX I have decided to omit the telephone numbers for 2 reasons:
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No iPhone for Saudi Arabia
With the recent WWDC Keynote announcement. The new iPhone 3G was announced with a price point of (less than $199 in all countries). And over 70 countries will get the iPhone by September 2008. Two of those countries not listed was Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Two of the biggest mobile communication consumers
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Arabic iPhone localization released
Five months ago I blogged about Arabic localization attempts for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Unfortunately just like “iPhone4arab“, iFone4arab also stopped updating his site, and that was before Macworld and the iPhone SDK event. For me, screenshots and videos are not enough, and so I still consider this Vaporware. Vaporware is according to Wikipedia:
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Arabic iPhone almost here
I managed to get this posted on iPhone Central. Hopefully it gets more coverage and noticed by Apple: Reader Khaled brought to our attention two separate groups, both working at bringing elements of Arabic language functionality to the iPhone. The first, at iPhone Islam, is aiming to bring Arabic character support to the iPhone via
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