Reporting from San Jose — Vivek Wadhwa recently used his iPhone while traveling in India. “I only checked emails a few times, made several calls,” Wadhwa, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, recalled ...

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Since the launch of the very first iPhone, customers in the U.S. could only get their hands on the device if they were willing to ink a two-year contract with a cell phone carrier. iPhone users in ...

Wow! I didn't think that a short post on Apple's press release about how an upcoming iPhone firmware update might brick unlocked iPhones could generate so much email! I think that there must be a fair ...

Apple started selling unlocked iPhones today, but they're really expensive. Is there any real benefit to buying an unlocked iPhone or am I better off getting one on a contract? What about unlocked ...

You can currently pick up an unlocked 128GB iPhone 15 for $470 on Amazon Renewed, making it a sub-$500 option to get a pretty complete iPhone package. If bigger phones are your jam, you can get the ...

As we posted earlier, Apple is selling an unlocked version of the iPhone in the US starting at US$649. To help clarify questions about this development, we've put together this little FAQ. We'll ...

Major cellular carriers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and others — typically lock their networks to the iPhone you buy from their stores or pay for via an installment plan. What does that really ...

Hackers from the iPhone Dev Team are claiming that they have fully unlocked the iPhone using a complicated hardware method—it requires “complicated soldering, with a high probability of a bricked ...

An unlocked iPhone can be restored by connecting it to iTunes and using the latest backup to restore the phone. Business owners may need to restore an iPhone after it has been tampered with or if it ...

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