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The Difference Between A Factory Unlocked iPhone and A Jailbroken iPhone

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If you use an iPhone, you must be aware of these two terms: jailbreaking and unlocking. Well, both give users better control over their device, however, they are quite different from each other. Want to know more? Please read on:

Jailbroken iPhone

You must have noticed that you cannot download and install apps from anywhere and everywhere on your iPhone. Apple has a few restrictions when it comes to installing third party apps into the iPhone. You can remove this restriction through jailbreaking. You can jailbreak your iPhone using software, in most cases. Out there in the online world, there are numerous software that can help you with jailbreaking. However, it is advisable that before you use any of those, you should also use your brains. There have been many instances where installing an app from an unverified source has caused the iPhone several troubles including slow speed, malware infection, stability issues, data theft etc. That being said, in most of the cases, jailbreaking an iPhone will most definitely also void your warranty and it’€™s not 100% legal at all times either.

Unlocked iPhone

When you unlock an iPhone, it has mostly got to do with changing your current mobile carrier. Suppose, your current mobile carrier doesn’t give you the coverage that you aspire for or you are paying more than what you expect for using their services. The bottom line is that you wish to switch to some other mobile carrier and that’€™s where unlocking the phone comes to play. The unlocking procedure can be completed right from your home, if you have internet connectivity. However, the steps can sometimes seem to be intimidating and if you don’€™t worry about paying a few extra dollars, choosing a good iPhone unlocking service provider is the way to go.

Unlocking the phone doesn’t generally require any information on the device such as its firmware version or base band. That being said, if you are planning to have a CDMA network as your new mobile service provider after unlocking is completed, think again. You can only use a GSM network after unlocking the iPhone as you will need to manually insert the SIM card of the new mobile service provider.

The author is so much interested in gadgets and many more technologies, This article on How to Get Your AT&T iPhone 5 Factory SIM Card Unlocked should prove to be helpful for you.

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Carla Wilson is a social media marketing expert, who has been making use of various social platforms for variety of reasons. He gives wonderful social media tips for increasing Twitter followers and Facebook likes.

6 Comments

6 Comments

  1. Abhijit Mahida

    October 16, 2013 at 11:49 am

    Nice Information about Jailbroke iPhone and Unlocked iPhone.Thanks.

  2. Rohit Dubey

    October 16, 2013 at 5:02 pm

    thanks for differentiating them.
    most of people think that both are same thing..

  3. Ricky

    October 17, 2013 at 5:12 am

    Thanks for the information. Most people thinks that jailbreak will lead to unlock of iPhone, but it is not true always. However, vice versa is true.

  4. daksh

    October 21, 2013 at 9:01 pm

    Thanks a lot for sharing the information. I am damn sure this article will surely help iphone users.

    • Raj

      October 22, 2013 at 7:19 pm

      It has already helped me and I am happy that I was at a right place.

      Thanks for a great share 🙂

  5. August

    November 22, 2013 at 10:22 am

    I don’t think I would want to jailbreak my phone not with all these risks.

    Thanks for sharing.

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