11-10-2009, 03:03 PM
DP wrote:
Just for informational purposes-what's the difference between unlocking and jailbreaking?
Unlocking allows a GSM phone to work with a SIM card from any mobile company. Virtually all mobile phones are sold locked to a carrier, although there are non-carrier stores which sell new unlocked phones. This happens because the carriers subsidize the price of the phone, so they want to get paid for the subsidy by having you use the phone with them.
For some phones you can get an unlock code from a third party. For others the phone can only be unlocked by the mobile company which sold the phone. For example, I have a Nokia 6133 which was originally T-Mobile. The person who sold it to me got T-Mobile to unlock the phone and I use it on AT&T.
Jailbreaking allows features which have been disabled by the mobile company to be used, for example, adding non-App Store applications to an iPhone. I did this for my Nokia 6133 by finding someone who could flash it to an uncrippled version of the phone's OS, re-enabling some features T-Mobile had disabled.
Good luck.
- Winston