If you want to take your Galaxy S10 and use it on any carrier network, you’ll have to do a SIM unlock first. In this guide we’ll explain how to SIM unlock the Galaxy S10 or Galaxy S10+ and why you’d ...

1) a Straighttalk iPhone SE (carrier locked) that came from the carrier with a Verizon-tower SIM card. 2) a Straighttalk ATT-compatibe SIM card. I would definitely assume so. The phone might also have ...

In addition to using the phone on a rival domestic carrier, many users may want to unlock their iPhones for traveling to international destination. This way, they can use a prepaid local SIM card ...

Shawn is a software engineer and a mobile tech degenerate by night. His daily drivers are a Galaxy S7 Edge and an iPhone 6S Plus. Ever since the Nexus 5, Sprint seems to be ever more accepting of ...

After you purchase and use your cellphone for an extended period of time, you can change networks. However, the phone that you're currently using may not be offered on that network. If you wish to ...

If you ask most cell phone users what they understand the term “unlocked phone” to mean, they will likely tell you that it is exactly what it says: that you can use the phone on any cell carrier ...

The new SIM-free phones can be activated at the carrier of your choice, starting at $649 for the 16GB iPhone 6. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional.

If you’ve ever bought a second-hand iPhone or switched to a new carrier, you may have faced the frustration of a locked device. Carrier-locked iPhones prevent you from using SIM cards from other ...

At the beginning of this year, I was very excited. You see, at Google’s launch event for the Nexus One, they made one thing clear: they were going directly after the dominating carrier lock-in model ...