T-mobile Uncarrier 8.0 is the new event that the American carrier is about to hold and you can watch its live stream pretty soon. This company has already organized several similar events. The previous conferences helped the Magenta network to present its Music Freedom program and Wi-Fi Calling option. iPhone subscribers and other carrier customers expect some other changes.
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Some of iOS users faced with the not so pleasant trouble how to find stolen iPhone. Here is why thinking whether jailbreak your iOS device or not you’d better choose yes. What to do if your iPhone is stolen? Not just Cydia tweaks push the boundaries far beyond what’s capable in standard iOS. Its magic power lets users to change their default browser or adjust the theme are traits typical of the jailbreak scene and even download torrents. But catching thieves is one of the top feature of jailbroken device. With the help of tweak designed purely for getting back a lost handset any user can find the thief’s location and catch him.
If you don’t know how to find stolen iPhone 5 or 5S you will need tweaks. Also you can find out why iPhone is blacklisted it can be blocked not only of the stolen or lost status. These tweaks will with no doubt help you to retrieve you device. Apps that help users to find lost iOS device are more prevalent now than they’ve ever been. As theft is still alive at present time.
As one Redditor G1ngerbeer told that his wife had no idea how to find stolen iPhone 6 that some woman had taken from wife’s jacket pocket. But he quickly use iCaughtU Pro and set not just about locating , but emailed a picture of the thief as she’d tried to enter a Passcode.
Together with policeman tracked the woman down to a few blocks away. Despite the fact that she protested her innocence, suggesting that she’d found the handset she was arrested, and given the evidence offered by the tweak. G1ngerbeer and his wife’s devices also had the IfFound tweak, which displays certain contact info of an owner if a device is lost.
Of course, in this situation tweaks systems for tracking were really useful. The thief was found and arrested. But in a different city, on a different day, things could quite easily have turned not in so happy way. If you are looking to purchase not new phone it is highly recommended to check blacklist status of it.
No matter if your device is jailbroken or not, it is highly recommended to put at least stock level security measures. And in the case of iOS, turn Find My iPhone on, navigating to Settings > iCloud > Find My iPhone. Because you will never know if you could get into situation how to find stolen iPhone.
The new option introduced by Apple over a year ago gave the life to new Apple ID lock bypass service. Still there can be a huge problem with this feature. The Cupertino-based company provided the iOS 7 and 8 option to improve security for users’ IDs. The feature is available in the U.S. and in some foreign countries. It is also tied to iCloud.com site but everything is not a simple as it looks like at first sight.
Apple ID gets locked for security reasons and you have to enter your ID and password in order to unlock your iPhone, erase your information, restore and do some other thing with the smartphone.
The new extra security option has also been introduced to enhance user’s protection. It is known as Recovery Key, but this key is pretty dangerous to use because once you lose it you can have your Apple account locked for a lifetime. This is potentially and maybe iCloud locked unlock services will be able to help users who gt locked this way.
If anyone tries to hack your iCloud account, the new two-factor security key should interfere and lock the account. Hacker or whoever tries to hack your account should get denying entry, but you, just as well, will face the same thing. Your access to your account will be denied.
One person, Williams, has already tried to go through the procedure of unlocking his locked iPhone at Apple’s recovery service. He had his Recovery Key, password and a second device tied to his Apple account with him.
He was told that it was impossible to unlock him back without the Recovery Key. So, keep this key in a safe place because without it, you can be locked once and forever without any possibility of becoming unlocked.
If you use two-step security key, take a couple of pictures of yours, write it down on the paper, print it and keep in the safe place where you can always find it. You can read all the details about what to do if your Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons. here: http://support.apple.com/en-nz/TS2446.
Do you have an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus and planning a trip to the UK? What is the best iPhone network UK can boast? These are typical questions asked by a lot of tourists and businessmen and it’s time to create a list of the Top iPhone 3G / 4G network UK companies to help you ease your choice.
Apple iPhone is one of the most popular smartphones around the world. The company did everything to make millions of people want and dread about this handset. No matter how expensive iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models are, customers continue to buy it and the high demand doesn’t seem to become any less than it was in September when these devices were released. What iPhone carrier in UK is the best one? There are four main networks you can choose from. They are Vodafone, O2, Three and EE.
Of course, each carrier has it pros and cons, but you can also pay attention at the network performance specifically for the iPhone devices. Some companies perform network tests to see what this or that network can offer the subscriber or a user who is using the prepaid SIM card.
Everything is surely depends on your location. If you go to London you will have better connection than if you go to a small town somewhere else in England. These are just common test results that can give you an idea what to expect though your expectations can still be different.
Users who are searching for the fastest network can rely on Three that offers both 3G and 4G coverage. The slowest here is Vodafone, but it’s not that slow, it just couldn’t beet Three during the test as it showed the quickest result of 19.53Mb.
Three is also known as the best 3G network for iPhones, as well as 4G network. Still here, if you need 4G you can also select EE which also shows good performance.
If you need the best coverage, its Three again but EE can also work for you. Vodafone and O2 are also good networks but they can’t offer such coverage as Three.
It’s still up to you which carrier to connect to while staying in the UK.
Sprint iPhone for Life is a plan that allows customers to lease the smartphone. It is possible to buy iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus using Sprint plan and now the mobile operator offers American consumers a 30-month plan which is an extention of the previously offered deal.
The new iPhone for Life Sprint deal lasts 30 months and the monthly cost of your cell phone is reduced to $18 for the 16GB iPhone 6. If you wish to get the bigger iPhone 6 Plus via this option you will have to pay $23 per month for the plan.
While Sprint iPhone for Life is extended users can still get the previous deals that allow leasing the iOS smartphone for 12 months and 24 months. Just like it happens with contract devices, when the time period of your lease plan is over you are able to upgrade to a newer model by trading in your iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus.
Sprint offers an alternative solution. Subscribers are able to purchase their device or keep on with the leasing option.
While you can use the normal financing plan which considers $35 monthly payments, it is cheaper to lease for three years and pay $18 per month and such a plan might be good for users who don’t want to own one iPhone model but wish to upgrade it once in a while.
Fans of low-cost installment plans might enjoy the new Sprint iPhone 6 and 6 Plus for Life plan. What do you think about these changes? Would you agree to lease a modern gadget, pay its full price at once or wish to stick to a contract?
Free WiFi on Verizon iPhone and a day before Thanksgiving named “Connection Day” in the USA were declared by Verizon and some of its partners. Verizon’s first offer is free WiFi On Verizon iPhone in partnership with Gogo, Boingo and Jet Blue.
Between November 24 and December 24, if you’re on a Jet Blue flight, you will get Wi-Fi session for free. Boingo and Gogo each of them offer 30 minute Wi-Fi sessions for free for one-time on the 26th for free — respectively in-flight and in airports.
Verizon subscribers also will get one more special gift. For any Verizon Wireless user who will sign up on webpage of the company’s Connection Day there is very useful offer. He will get on their account credit of 1GB of shareable data for one-time, including another 1GB of data in the following billing cycle.
Verizon has a lot more offers just free Wi-Fi. Some of these free promotional machinations end with a fee. If you decided to try these offers not pay expensive fee please make sure you cancel every service before the free trials end.
Verizon, with free Wi-Fi, is also offers free movie and TV show that can be viewed with the app called Verizon FiOS Preview. This app goes live in Google Play. It seems that Verizon is also works with Apple. On November 26, the iOS maker will have a special free offer inside iTunes.
Pandora company offers a free week of Pandora One. It is the Internet radio provider’s premium service.
Condé Nast proposes downloads of 17 different magazines for free among them are GQ and Vanity Fair.
It seems that it is all offers of free trial, but you also can get a few ads boosting you to sign up.
Amazon has few tricky offers. If you sign up for a two month trial you can get two free audiobooks from Audible. But after trial period will come to the end you will pay $15 per month for the full Audible service. If you’re a Audible customer at current time you can’t get the free downloads.
But Audible will give you a $10 coupon. It means that you must apply to your account within 60 days. If you have an Amazon account one more Amazon’s offer is for you. It is 10 free songs you can add to your Amazon music library, and also10 free apps in the Amazon App Store.
Another promotion is 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime with all the frills that services offers including free two-day movie and shipping, also TV streaming. If you don’t cancel Prime before the trial ends, you’ll pay $100 for every year.
As you see, except free WiFi on Verizon iPhone you can get more offers from different companies. It is your choice to try them or not.
Do you have T-Mobile iPhone or any other smartphone or tablet locked or contracted to T-Mobile in the U.S.? The carrier announced that it added 14 additional music streaming services to its Music Freedom that was first revealed in June of 2014. This service came as a part of the company’s Uncarrier event and it seems to be growing with time as the carrier adds new services for customers to love.
T-Mobile music streaming services are available to subscribers who enjoy listening to music but don’t like their monthly allotment be affected by music streaming. Through Music Freedom you can enjoy music as much as you want because it will not impact your data plan.
Users seem to like the idea because now T-Mobile USA decides to add more services to the original list. For example, all carrier’s subscribers can listen to Xbox Music source and Google Play Music service along with other channels available.
You can also get RadioTunes with a lot of no-cost radio channels, get electronic dance music with Digitally Imported, enjoy jazz, Latin and gym songs, and get pretty much every music style you like.
The carrier has added Live365, ROCKRADIO, and different other services and now T-Mobile Music Freedom totals 27 different services.
Every year Apple fans have to search for new instructions on how to fix the most recent models in case anything goes wrong and the company’s warranty is not valid. For example, this year customers might search for how to fix iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus as both models were officially released in fall 2014.
Having a brand new device is always cool but not everyone is eager to disassemble it just to check out how it is different from previous models. Luckily, Internet has a lot of great people who are sharing how to fix iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6 guides with ordinary users.
You should definitely try to take your new iPhone to the official Apple service center to have it fixed in case it is not working. Do not search for how to fix iPhone 6 camera if you have warranty available. Better ask professionals to fix the device for you. All DIY guides are designed to help those people who have no warranty or don’t like to pay for the professional services which are surely safer than disassembling and reassembling the new modern Apple gadgets.
If you lost all hopes to get the issue solved with the service center you are still advised to find third-party service center which guarantees to not make everything worth. Then, when you have no other ways to fix iPhone 6 professionall you can search for sites as iFixit and similar where users post pictures and step-by-step instructions on how to repair particular details.
Once again, the official Apple retail stores and service centers are way more reliable than any instructions you find online.
Did you know about Verizon tracking ID issue? This American carrier is now adding a hidden code to every single website page you are visiting. Since this is a hidden tracking number you cannot see it when you visit different sites from your iPhone or other mobile device, but Verizon is tracking users.
Verizon users are tracked by Twitter app and a lot of other sites and applications. Such a report was mentioned by prominent sources, including Forbes, Wired and others. It is also known that Verizon ID and tracking is not the only problem because there was another American carrier, AT&T, that was also tracking its subscribers using the hidden code. Still AT&T recently reported that it stopped using the cookie tracking method so its subscribers can sign up with a relief while those who are subscribed to Verizon are still being tracked.
While Verizon ID is tracking downloads and other Internet activity, you can’t do much about it. In theory, any website you are visiting can use your data and create your record based on what pages you visit and for how long which is not too pleasant.
Verizon assures the data it collects about subscribers is not sold to anyone. Verizon changes the policy but for tracking. Twitter doesn’t even comment on the tracking issue. AT&T said it was just a test and it no longer tracks users’ cellphones.
Unlike on computers where users are tracked by cookies, iPhone Verizon and other device users use too many applications that do not communicate with each other. By building in a hidden number ad trackers started to collect information about user’s behavior but Apple now allows users to delete the device IDs used for such tracking.
The new method was found in 2010 by the Open Mobile Alliance, and in 2012 AT&T tried to insert a subscriber ID into its web traffic followed by Verizon that also wanted to insert a unique ID hearder into its user’s traffic. According to companies, this way it is possible to show content targeted to the person’s interests.
The program didn’t last too long at AT&T, but Verizon continues to track users by their IDs even today. Besides, this carrier sells the service promising accurate data about user’s online behavior.
According to experts, users can only drive a test to find out whether they are tracked. If you wish to clean your iPhone cookies you can reset your mobile ID.
New AT&T data plan change is waiting for all 10GB plan subscriber. The U.S. is once again adds changes to its data plans and subscribers get a different deal than they hope for. It’s true that not all users are happy when AT&T changes data plans as such changes come unexpectedly. This time everything is not so bad as it could have seemed at first glance.
If you are using the 10GB plan you can now get up to 15GB of data which is up to 5GB plus to your package and you’ll pay the same price as you used to do. AT&T 15GB data plan costs $100 just like the 10GB data plan but subscribers can get more data for the same cost.
The offer was just unveiled on November 17 and it becomes available on November 18. The carrier, of course, charges the cost per one line, but current users are used to this.
What else does new AT&T 15GB plan offer? Firstly, you get up to 15GB of data, as it was mentioned above. Secondly, you receive unlimited text messaging and phone conversations. Thirdly, this AT&T plan is available to new and existing subscribers.
According to the company, its deal will be available for a limited time. Do you think it’s worth changing for this plan?