We’ve been down this road before: a new iOS version is released that undoes all of the nasty stuff hackers did to the previous version. A week later those same hackers blow out a jailbreak and then a ...

Subscribers in Japan are currently locked into a mobile carrier at expensive monthly rates when buying a subsidised phone. A new government initiative will remove the SIM locks on phones to allow for ...

Security is one crucial issue to we need to pay attention to due to the unsafe environments we live in. Most people have had their phones stolen at some point. And those stolen phones had their bank ...

(Subscriber Identity Module lock) A function in GSM cellphones that restricts the phone's use to a particular cellular carrier identified by a SIM card. SIM locks are used to ensure subscribers finish ...

Your phone's SIM card allows the device to make calls, send texts, and connect to the internet. The SIM card provides a phone number that identifies your device on the carrier's network, whether it's ...

SIM locks are a very unfortunate feature employed by network carriers around the globe, that restrict the usage of your iPhone only to their services and SIM cards. More and more carriers are already ...

Following the recent launch of its new ConeXis X2 and ConeXis A2 smartphones, many potential customers have asked why the bank has SIM-locked the devices. FNB has locked the new smartphones to FNB ...

The multi-carrier Apple SIM in the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 lets US customers purchase data from either AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile. But it turns out that if you want the option of switching carriers, ...

The Apple SIM in the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 is based on an awesome idea—who doesn’t want to switch carriers with a tap of the screen? But the actual utility of the Apple SIM is pretty muddled, as ...