Amhaz (Stars Communications) shop

since there is no law in lebanon that make piracy or hacking illegal

Of course there is.
Lebanon signed both the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Universal Copyright Convention according to this. You need to do some research before posting something that you present as a fact.

Even though wikipedia is 95% correct in most cases, the first rule you learn at university is to never refer to it.

We're well accustomed to the Lebanese way of signing on something and doing technically nothing when it comes to the implementation anyway.

WizaRd wroteEven though wikipedia is 95% correct in most cases, the first rule you learn at university is to never refer to it.

I used wikipedia merely to locate the information. The actual sources are Unesco and the WIPO.

m.sabra wrote@Samer sorry for the incorrect info that i have posted, but i don't remember (maybe there is some case that i don't know about it for accuracy) any time that someone was accused for hacking or piracy and you can see that the market is fulled with pirated softwares and movies
and my idea was why we don't have sim locked phones from MTC and Alfa for cheap prices ?

Because the cellphone dealers need direct access to the providers and in our case the providers need authorization from the government for every single move.

ZeRaW wrote

m.sabra wrote@Samer sorry for the incorrect info that i have posted, but i don't remember (maybe there is some case that i don't know about it for accuracy) any time that someone was accused for hacking or piracy and you can see that the market is fulled with pirated softwares and movies
and my idea was why we don't have sim locked phones from MTC and Alfa for cheap prices ?

Because the cellphone dealers need direct access to the providers and in our case the providers need authorization from the government for every single move.

Plus these 2 providers have only a 1 year contract that they renew every year so :/

Exemple: I talked to a Samsung salesman yesterday and asked about the SGS2...he said not before September!!!
Amhaz should get it this week ;)

vegetaleb wroteExemple: I talked to a Samsung salesman yesterday and asked about the SGS2...he said not before September!!!
Amhaz should get it this week ;)

So what? You get it before the distributor gets it, without warranty? without after sale service?

yes an i don't have a problem with that

Actual defaut of fabrication are obvious the first minutes you use the phone, so just try it in the shop before paying.
Software problems are not a problem anymore because with Android you can just flah the rom again and again (old nokia and SE proprietary phones are history now)
Just check screen,speaker,camera and try calling...if everything is good then mabrouk

It was true on the first devices using those technologies, now it's extremely rare

in some samsung devices if you typed *#0*# you will get a screen to test your phone it includes scree,touch,speaker,camera,sensor,vibrator,camera flash ...

m.sabra wrotein some samsung devices if you typed *#0*# you will get a screen to test your phone it includes scree,touch,speaker,camera,sensor,vibrator,camera flash ...

So for what reason there is 1 year warranty for phones, and up to 4 years warranty for Laptop if we can test our electronic devices from the first minutes ?

in my opinion it's just madness to pay this much money just for warranty Samsung Lebanon claims that the GSII will be available for below 1000$ so maybe 900$ and it's available now for 675$ and i am certain that it will be cheaper in the next few weeks and as Vegetaleb said software and OS are not considered problems anymore and manufacturing problems are extremely rare so just don't be so pessimist.

Thank you m.sabra for your previous reply. But is 675$ the final SGSII price? And does anyone know the current price of the predecessor the S one at the shop?

correction the SGSII2 price at the last time i checked was 665$ and as i know yes the prices are final. but you should call or ask them at facebook for the latest prices because prices usually drop every week.

Guys can we have one thread for phones/amhaz/ everything else ? Its a waste having a billion threads discussing the same two phones over and over again !

blabsters wroteGuys can we have one thread for phones/amhaz/ everything else ? Its a waste having a billion threads discussing the same two phones over and over again !

people are asking questions about this topic anywhere even in Forum loby and i am just answering it's not my fault.

regarding buying tehreeb or not, lebanon is a city of 4 million people, so a dealership cant expect to become billionaires with such a small population of consumers. but for some reason they are actually trying to become billionaires by marking up the price so much that it's just ridiculous to buy any electronic device from the dealer.

so now we have 2 choices, either we dont buy from the dealer hoping that one he will wake up and join us on planet earth and give realistic prices (in the meantime we buy tehreeb to keep up with tech), or we keep buying from the dealer proving to them we r the gullible saps they thought we were.

tehreeb is the best resort in the current sick dealership system. and i seriously dont expect the dealer to lower the prices if his sales surge, he will be looking at the next yacht to buy with all that extra money and maybe he might grow a pair and even raise the price more just because "he can".