Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Look at what I saw in Carrefour, City Center! If you’re really in need to have “Siri” and an 8 megapixel camera, the iPhone 4S, 32 GB would cost you an arm and a leg a whopping 5,999 QR. That’s 1643 USD! Or twice what the phone would probably cost if bought in a country [...]

I’m doing some cleaning and letting go of some of my xbox games. New and some old games. Grab them ASAP! New games are typically sold for 230QR upwards in Virgin, eMax or Technical Care Center. All are region-free so you can play them in both PAL and NTSC machines though the labels may say [...]

Look at what landed on our Aramex Box! The WD TV Live Plus and a 3TB Seagate Expansion External Drive. A perfect combination to watch all your downloaded movies and shows. AVI, DIVX, XVID, WMV, DVD-ISO, MP4 and even MKV gooodness! But we still have to see if it really works. The problem encountered by [...]

Hmmm…Qatar Vodafone has announced that they’ll be bringing in iPhone 4 in Qatar. Vodafone Qatar will launch the iPhone 4, the thinnest smartphone in the world with the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, in Qatar in the coming months. Information on pricing and points of sale will be available in due course, [...]

We were walking towards Chilis in Salwa Road and saw a poster displayed at RadioShack for an iPad! Wow! So you can now buy an iPad direct from a shop in Qatar. We were curious and entered the shop to ask about it. The boxed iPad was displayed along with the other Apple products but [...]


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  • Jaimie Logan: Can you recommend a good local travel agency for this Bohol tour? Or did you just get there by yours [...]
  • Richelle: I have a flight on Thursday, 19 Jan 2012 from Doha to Manila and I called the customer service of Et [...]
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  • xtian001: @Donovan, what I can suggest is for you to gauge how much you would be saving after all the extra sp [...]