Yes, you read that right. Unlocking your carrier-locked iPhone without contacting your carrier could become illegal come this Saturday. Even software unlocks without consent from your carrier would be considered illegal. With an unlocked iPhone, you can use any carrier’s SIM card on your device. This is very useful for travelers or if you want [...]

Your IMEI number is a digital code that is unique to every mobile phone being used on a mobile network. The IMEI number can be useful in a number of ways such as preventing a stolen mobile phone from connecting to a mobile network, and it must also be known if you want to IMEI unlock your phone. [...]

We’ve questioned the encryption scheme of the highly popular WhatsApp messaging service in the past, but the service seems to have another potential flaw. According to a Hacker News Network thread and Sam Granger’s blog the Android version of WhatsApp uses a phone number and a cryptographically tweaked version of the device’s IMEI. This or a [...]

AppleNBerry has released an IMEI Unlock that ditches the jailbreak and custom SIM card, and instead gets Apple to directly ‘white list’ your phone. The GEVEY Chips AppleNBerry sells currently cost between $22.99 and 33.99, but the hardware and software-free unlock costs $150. On the other hand, it’s supposedly a permanent unlock, meaning it will [...]

Many smartphones hold their resell value very well, but you can still manage to find some great deals on places like Craigslist and Ebay. However, as you probably already know, there are a number of stolen phones that are floating around and show up on sites like that. According to the WSJ, the four major [...]

Last year a service launched called CutYourSIM that offered to unlock your iPhone on a majority of carriers, just like you have purchased it that way from Apple. The way this unlocking method was carried out apparently had to do with CutYourSIM having a contact within Apple’s or a major smartphone carrier’s quarters. With this special contact [...]