Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

iPhone Unlocking

Apr 14, 2010 10:39PM PDT

Hey all,

I am going to get an iPhone soon and am weighing up my options. Most likely (for reasons of cost) I plan to get a second hand iPhone 3G or the one to be released in June and unlock it to put it on a much cheaper sim.

I know the one disadvantage with jailbreaking/unlocking is having to keep up with the Dev Team and Apple's software releases, but I've been dealing with this for the past 3 years with my iPod Touch.

In terms of usability, what features do I loose by going with the unlocking route?
Visual Voicemail?
3G Performance?
GPS (location)?
Internal things like usage tracking?

Thanks all!!

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
iPhone jailbreaking
Apr 17, 2010 8:50AM PDT

hey!
u r very right about loosing some of the features by jailbreaking the iPhone but the jailbreaking is not so bad of a thing to do. where you loose some features you are also getting alot of other stuff which is only supported by an unlocked iPhone. Hope you've got the point.

- Collapse -
nothing is perfect.
May 16, 2010 2:54PM PDT

Hi, I have jailbroken and unlocked mine, and it works nicely. Much Much cheeper than AT&T. Overall it is worth it, although there are sometimes some minor network problems. It works great and it is totally reliable. I used black rain.