It is a real surprise. It even confused us when we got its news and sought to verify it. The iPhone 4, which will be officially available in the coming days in a number of Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Qatar, Egypt and others, will not contain this iPhone 4 the most important feature in it at all, which is the video chat feature. The network or Face Time, which Apple introduced for the first time in its new iPhone 4, and we talked about it Here We reviewed it and tried it out on this video And we saw how you can make a video call with your friends in high quality and with very excellent sound and picture via the internet connection and anywhere in the world!
According to the news received, citizens of Arab countries will be deprived of this feature, as Apple and its main pages for countries such as Saudi Arabia , And Egypt , And the Qatar ، And the Emirates , And Jordan. By changing the official announcement of the iPhone 4 as you can see in the picture above to another advertisement in which a picture of the Facebook feature was scanned and covered with a color screen, indicating that this feature will not be available to those countries.
Also, this feature was not originally mentioned in the iPhone 4 features list in the pages of those countries on the official Apple website, and the rest of the other features were mentioned, noting that Apple publicly notes the following wholesale: "Some features, applications and services are not available in all areas. details. "
That is, "some features, services and applications will not be available in some countries, and you can refer to the service provider for details!"
We do not know how to agree on preventing this feature in Arab countries, but it is more likely that this is done in coordination with local telecommunications companies and the authorities concerned with this matter as a condition that may be imposed on Apple to allow the iPhone 4 to be available in those countries, and we do not know the reasons for that. Is it cultural and related With customs and traditions, or is it security and political, or a mixture of this and that!
Note that this brings us back to similar events like Block the GPS feature on the iPhone in Egypt Before allowing it, as well as prohibiting encryption in the BlackBerry in some Arab countries as a condition to allow it.
The truth is that this news represents a disaster and a great shock to Apple fans and buyers of its products, especially the iPhone, and those who were waiting for the new iPhone on pins and needles.
Rather, we call on everyone not to buy the iPhone 4 if this prohibition takes effect on the ground because at that time it loses the most important advantage of buying it and benefiting from it. As well as protesting against telecommunications companies in the Arab countries, which will prevent this feature and correspond with them or pray for them if they run out of solutions!
It should be noted that current iPhone 4 owners avoid any updates, especially with regard to the Network Bundle, which may come directly (Over The Air (OTA)). The FaceTime feature, and this update may come even without the phone being connected to the computer, just a push notification message as in the picture above, so you should be careful and avoid this message immediately by canceling it and pressing the Not Now button, and this message may appear to some subscribers but not others, according to the telecom companies (appeared For some Vodafone Egypt and Mobinil subscribers, this confirms that the phone, perhaps after several days, will be available in Egypt, and that is why the pre-trial and the network development package have been downloaded.
Readers may ask how to disable FaceTime from the service provider while it works over Wi-Fi and has no relationship at all to the service provider. In order to answer this question, I would like to tell you that at the present time in some countries where the iPhone has already been issued, there are networks that block FaceTime, and that ban is done by the service provider. The first time FaceTime is launched, it must be activated by the service provider and many iPhone 4 users receive a FaceTime Waiting For Activation message, and FaceTime has never worked with them.
If this really happens, it will be a very bad reputation for Apple and it will increase the demand for jailbreaking because it will be the hope to restore this feature in the Arab world away from the restrictions of governments and Apple's imprisonment.
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