Tag: unlocking
Three start selling unlocked phones
SIMable will unlock your iPhone 3G (or half-broken Nokia 3310) for £16.99
If you're perfectly at ease with the concept of cutting a hole in your SIM card, SIMable is the high-risk solution to your mobile phone unlocking needs. We've mentioned the SIM-hacking tool before, but now it's been enhanced to do…
Will Apple limit iPhone 3G in UK as punishment for unlocking, and why should they care?
According to inside sources in the mobile retail industry, Apple is planning to limit sales of the iPhone 3G in the UK because it’s pissed off (that’s the technical term, you understand) with Brits unlocking and doing naughty things with it.
Statistics suggest that only 15% (that’s around one in six) of the first generation iPhones sold in the UK were activated for use on the O2 network. The rest were either unlocked for use on other British networks or were sold on abroad…
Unlock your mobile with SIMable: "a technology breakthrough in mobile phone unlocking"
Anyone wanting to unlock their mobile phone no longer needs to take a walk down Tottenham Court Road, or visit a car boot sale, because SIMable is a little device that will “trick” your mobile phone into thinking it’s no longer tied to the mobile network it got shackled to…
Apple rakes in $831 from every iPhone sold
iPhone’s exclusive American operator AT&T ends up paying out $18 a month to Apple just for the privilege of stocking the thing, thanks to data revealed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Plus iPhone doesn’t come with any old mobile contract – poor Americans are LOCKED DOWN into it for a full two years, hence all the fuss about unlocking it. Then you’ve got the price of the phone itself on top of that. It all comes to $831 winging its way to Apple…
