Here's an advance look at the new all Arabic technology.
Posted on 01/05/2005 6:21:25 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
JEDDAH, 6 January 2005 — A new brand of mobile phones made in Saudi Arabia by a Saudi company will hit the market later this month.
Based on indigenous technology, the product will be the first “Made in Saudi Arabia” mobile phone, Ghazi Saleh Al-Shalhoub, chairman of Saudi Television Manufacturing Company, told Arab News. “The product is made without collaboration with any foreign manufacturer,” he claimed.
He said Saudi Television Manufacturing Company’s new mobile phone is the first such product in the Kingdom and the Middle East region. It puts Saudi Arabia in a league of nations possessing electronic technology capable of producing such sophisticated products on its own.
Al-Shalhoub said the company has invested about $9 million to develop its own technology for the product named Islamic Saudi Mobile Phone which will be offered for sale at the end of January.
The new mobile phone has high memory capacity, can save numbers of incoming and outgoing calls and record calls lasting more than 15 minutes.
The new phone is equipped with color screen and a battery for continuous 12-hour use.
The phone, which displays the Qibla direction and prayer times in over 5,000 cities worldwide, has a number of languages available, such as Arabic, English, French, Urdu, Persian and Bahasa Indonesia, as it is also targeted at the Haj pilgrim market.
Al-Shalhoub said that the price of the mobile would not exceed SR400, and it would come with a one-year warranty.
The company aims at producing 2 million units during 2005, for sale in Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries.
The Kingdom imports around six million mobile phones a year, with 70 percent of consumers regularly changing their mobiles, something that has greatly boosted demand.
Competition in the mobile phone market is expected to intensify with the arrival of a new competitor to the Saudi Telecom Company which until now has been dominating both the mobile and land phone markets.
Ettihad Etisalat which won the second mobile phone service license said it expects to get up to seven million subscribers in the first five years of its operations in the Kingdom.
When are we going to produce energy without any foreign collaboration(Saudi Oil)?
Here's an advance look at the new all Arabic technology.
Nokia is in panic mode.
Knowing the Saudis, the damned thing likely comes with it's own C-4 belt wrapped around it.....
Yeah, Motorola is really gonna be in a snit about this.
Well, the article does say it's "Based on indigenous technology".
And here's the first breakdown on the side of the road.
Just damn.
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I hear they explode when innocent people use them.
This is the first car that runs better with sand in the gas tank.....
I don't think Sony or Motorola are too worried.
The phones only work 5 times a day, IF you point the antenna towards Mecca.
LOL!
Beat ya to it!
Great minds think alike! ;)
What happened to the roof mounted carrying handle, it fall off???
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