Unlock your iPhone
Before entering into a discussion of the means and benefits
of unlocking your iPhone, two points of clarification need to be made.
In the first place, as declared by the US Library of
Congress in July of 2010,
it is not illegal to unlock or jailbreak your iPhone. In the
second place, the two terms, ‘unlock’ and ‘jailbreak’, while related, are
distinct processes. When you unlock an iPhone, you modify the phone’s software
to allow it to work on a network other than that supplied by the official
carrier. When you ‘jailbreak’ an iPhone, however, what you are doing is setting
it up to delimit the software you can install on it. In other words, jailbroken
iPhones can run a huge range of apps, not just those available from the Apple
store.
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Unlock your iPhone and you unlock the monopoly afforded to
an “official” carrier This means that, as a telecommunications consumer, you
have choice, and choice inevitably signifies access to better deals and cheaper
plans. Moreover, the process of unlocking is both legal, as previously
discussed, and extremely easy to achieve.
Step 1: Decide
that you want your phone unlocked. This shouldn’t be too difficult, since the cost
to you ranges from free, at a site like JailbreakMe.com, to $35 if you ask
Apple to do it for you. (I know which site I’d be using!)
Step 2: Go to
your chosen website, click on a button and wait a few minutes. Whether your phone is a 4s version 5.0.1 or any of
the earlier models, you’ll soon be free to choose your own carrier. Take a
pick: Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange, Tesco, Sprint, Verizon, or any
other you may prefer.
Step 3: Jump in
and discover; the potential you have unlocked is waiting at your fingertips:
MMS messaging; MSN messaging with Yahoo and AIM; VNC client interaction. It
doesn’t end there.
Unlock. Escape.Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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