{"id":1897,"date":"2012-01-09T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T20:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:57","slug":"unlocking-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2012\/01\/09\/unlocking-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking cell phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>I recently learned how to jailbreak an iPhone 3G and unlock it. At around the same time, I&#8217;ve had a few people offer me their old cell phones. I have a nice new Blackberry, but my wife has an old flip phone, and texting is very painful. Several of these phones are slide phones, and they are unlocked with a code. I&#8217;ve looked online, and some places are offering the codes for $30 or so, but one place has them for around $7. I haven&#8217;t tried it yet, but when I decide which phone I&#8217;m going to use, I&#8217;ll probably try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellunlockednow.com\/\">CellUnlockedNow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I tried to use their service to unlock a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/ca\/consumer\/mobile\/mobile-phones\/all-phones\/SGH-A667ZGATLS\/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail\">Samsung Evergreen<\/a> that someone gave me, but they couldn&#8217;t do it. That&#8217;s disappointing! They will refund me my money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned how to jailbreak an iPhone 3G and unlock it. At around the same time, I&#8217;ve had a few people offer me their old cell phones. I have a nice new Blackberry, but my wife has an old flip phone, and texting is very painful. Several of these phones are slide phones, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[337],"tags":[341,286,340,339,72,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-1897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cell-phones-2","7":"tag-3g","8":"tag-blackberry","9":"tag-iphone","10":"tag-old-cell-phones","11":"tag-texting","12":"tag-unlocking-cell-phones","13":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}