What is the difference between unlocking an iphone and jailbreaking an iphone?
Question by HHMM: What is the difference between unlocking an iphone and jailbreaking an iphone?
im planing on buying an iphone or perhaps an ipod touch and i need to know the difference and risks of unlocking and jail breaking an iphone\ipod touch.
Please help!
and can an iphone 3g be unlocked
Best answer:
Answer by Justin H
Unlocking is allowing it to work on other carriers that have SIM cards. Calibratingg it is allowing it to have pictures on the background.
What do you think? Answer below!
On October 31, 2010 3riCa wrote:
Unlocking is only phone mobile phones so the iPod Touch can’t be unlocked. Unlocking is to make the phone that you bought from a Network Service be usable to any other networks around the globe (AT&T, Verizon, Rogers, Vodafone, etc.). If you buy phones from Network Services Centers, then the phone will be locked to that network, however if you buy one from the retailer (such as Apple for the iPhone 3G, Nokia Store for the nokia phones, etc.), then it will be unlocked.
Jailbreaking is a term used by internet junkies that refers to changing critical system files in order to make the device be-usable by 3rd Party Applications. In other words, jailbreaking means hacking your phone making you able to install cracked games and applications such as Asphalt 4: Elite Racing, Real Football 2009, etc. Both the iPhone and the iPod touch is able to Jailbreak given the set of tool. I’m afraid I cannot tell you what programs you need, just ask in different forums across the world.