An iPhone is a most wanted device in the phone market right now. One thing that make iPhone powerful is the closed ecosystem. And this thing can give you a lot of trouble especially some new user to Apple device. Many tech geeks are trying to break this dilemma for you to choose whatever you like while still enjoy the smoothness of the iOS system or other goodness that Apple provide , so you may hear a lot about the concept of jailbreaking and unlocking. Even though they left confusing to many people especially to the new users, but it is important especially the unlocking to a refurbished iPhone. In the following we will see something about these two process.

First you should know that Jailbreaking is the process of modifying the iOS firmware to allow unsigned code to run and gain access to files which is not authorized by Apple. Once your device is jailbroken, added apps will be present in your springboard like Cydia and Installous. Cydia is the home of unapproved App Store apps which can greatly enhance the features of having an iPhone. This also enables you to download third-party applications, cracked apps, and non-App Store apps (or tweaks) with an added unofficial applications installer called Installous. There is no way that Apple will encourage anyone to jailbreak their iDevices. In fact, they wanted to stop jailbreaking an iPhone by releasing new updates in the iOS firmware. Apple also states that warranty will be “void” when an iPhone is jailbroken. A simple restore process in iTune can definitely return your iPhone back to factory settings.

Another excellent function expected to modify the way we operate our phone is definitely the iPhone 5 camera 8MP rear facing camera displacing the 5MP camera in the preceding iPhone 4 including the Dual LED flash. Superior pixel camera will result in better quality of photographs and first-rate resolution, along with the dual LED flash will allow you to get hold of brighter photos.

While unlocking an iPhone is a more familiar process that most people will encounter when they are trying to get a refurbished iPhone. IPhone unlocking is the process of removing SIM restrictions to allow users the chance to use another carrier SIM cards for their iPhone. This is the most and only reason why you want to unlock your iPhone. Well then, if you are already satisfied with your network carrier, then there is no need to unlock. Not unless you will bring your iPhone abroad or send it to someone else. But if you purchase a refurbished model from another country which most of the case shared a different network, then the unlocking process is absolutely necessary, otherwise your purchased iPhone will be totally useless. There are two methods in unlocking an iPhone include the software and hardware unlocking. Software unlocking is the easier and safer way to unlock since things will be easily undone by restoring your iPhone in iTunes. Hardware unlocking requires opening your iPhone and modifying certain parts together with injecting a program. This method was usually used during the early days of the iPhones.

To summarize, there are big difference between iPhone jailbreaking and unlocking, we can put it in another way that iPhone jailbreaking is the process that make sure you can customize your iPhone by having the capability to install third-party apps aside from the official App Store, while the unlocking process that only guarantee you use another network carrier apart from your current one.

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