Thanks to the new ruling by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) a few weeks ago in July 2010, making jailbreaking and unlocking your iPhone device perfectly legal, there are an ever increasing number of options you can look at if and when you decide to jailbreak, and / or unlock your iPhone so you can use it on a carrier of your choice.

iPhone Jailbreaking and Unlocking has been around since the very first iPhone device, for those of you who don’t know what jailbreaking, and unlocking an iPhone is, then here is a brief explanation of what it is, why people do it, and what it entails.

Jailbreaking your iPhone allows you to install custom / non official, 3rd party apps and hacks on to your iPhone, i.e. the software/app that allows you to unlock your iPhone. You need to jailbreak before unlocking your iPhone, as the jailbreak prepares the iPhone for the unlocking tools.

Jailbreaking your iPhone was originally just for the purpose of unlocking, but now, people are jailbreaking their devices for many purposes other than simply to unlock it. With a jailbroken iPhone you are able to install and enable a vast amount of extra features that may be disabled within official iPhone Apps, like the ability to use Skype to make free calls over 3G. Jailbreaking your device also allows for better visual customisation of your device, allowing you to install your own themes.

The jailbreaking and unlocking process for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4.0 firmware are amongst the easiest, quickest and simplest yet. The original jailbreak for the first iPhone was lengthy, detailed, and you would require some novice knowledge of computing in order to be able to complete the process, but with the latest solutions and jailbreak / unlock service providers, you literally need zero computer knowledge in order to complete the process. Most processes can be done straight from your iPhone, by navigating to a certain URL in safari, then clicking one button – anyone can do it.

There are a large number of websites now that provide professional jailbreaking and unlocking services for your iPhone and iPod/iPad devices (they too can be jailbroken!), these professional services charge around , and you are guaranteed (with the legit sites – beware scam sites) to receive a simple, easy solution, as well as premium support. One company that wont let you down is unlockiphone40.com – they provide the solution for less than , it’s the best solution available to date, you get lifetime access and 24/7 premium support.

Apple will continue to lock jailbroken/unlocked devices with each firmware update, but the new jailbreak/unlock fix is never far behind, to make sure you are always on a jailbroken or unlocked device, join a service like unlockiphone40.com, and then do not update your iPhone firmware until you see the new jailbreak/unlock solution in the members area. If you do this you will always have a jailbroken and unlocked iPhone – which is now of course 100% legal!

Happy jailbreaking & unlocking!

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