How To Unlock Your Phone
Copyright Office has given a green light to unlock your GSM or iDen phone, you can save money on a new phone – provided you can find it unlocked, or unlock it yourself. Depending on your phone, you might be able to do that by punching in a code, by buying a cable, or by sending it to a professional unlocking service. This applies to Cingular, T-Mobile and Nextel phones
If you don’t fulfill those requirements – say you’ve just bought a phone off of eBay and it turns out to be locked, or you want to use a phone locked to a foreign carrier, or you want to make a prepaid phone into postpaid – you have a bunch of different options.
If you have an older or more basic Nokia phone, including the 1100, 6230, 6820 or 7650, you can use a free, online calculator to figure out your unlock code. Check out the instructions at http://nokiafree.org/forums/t64045/s.html and then use the calculator at http://unlock.nokiafree.org/ to find the code.
Once your phone is unlocked and moved to a different network, you’ll have to reprogram the phone’s data settings so you can access the Web and send and receive picture messages. T-Mobile users can get their settings at http://tmobileus.wdsglobal.com/phonefirst; Cingular users should call 611 and ask to have their MMS and WAP settings pushed to their phone number.
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