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Let’s discuss two side SIM free vs unlocked iPhone confrontation. As Apple company starts to sell unlocked SIM-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices through its online store and retail outlets, together with the unlocked T-Mobile variant. What is the difference between SIM free and unlocked iPhone. We’ll differentiate the two in detail.

Visiting Apple’s website you can see two option of sold models: T-Mobile and SIM-Free. Both this variants are fully unlocked. The upper T-Mobile version comes with the carrier’s own nano-SIM card pre-installed. Although if bought from Apple device is fully unlocked. It can be used on any other network, all around the world, including the United Sates. The second variant SIM-free unlocked model does not come with any SIM card, and is free to be used on any carrier.

There is exists one difference is bands which both the devices support that will affect on your buying decision for which model you would want to buy, especially if you’re a frequent traveler overseas. For starters, there’s one model each of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus for both T-Mobile and the SIM-free versions.

They are as follows:

T-Mobile

• iPhone 6 (model A1549)
• iPhone 6 Plus (model A1522)

SIM-Free

• iPhone 6 (model A1586)
• iPhone 6 Plus (model A1524)

The iPhone 6 or 6 Plus model is written behind the box in which the device comes in.

Here’s some words about unlocked iPhone on Apple website:

So we can make a conclusion that in SIM free vs unlocked iPhone confrontation the choice depends on user’s needs. If you’re a frequent traveler then the SIM-free model of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus is for you. It supports all the necessary bands worldwide, but has some limitations for United States carriers. And if you’re living in the U.S. then the T-Mobile variant of Apple’s device is the best choice.

Customers like to compare T Mobile vs. Sprint, AT&T and other carriers. This is normal as iPhone users as well as other device owners wish to get the best service at the lowest price. It is curious to hear about T Mobile plans for 2015, especially when they are voiced by the mobile company’s CEO John Legere who likes to speak his mind.

Legere didn’t compare Sprint and TMobile, instead he promised that the carrier is planning to expand and cover more areas across the United States. The company also has big plans to pass Sprint the next year.

As Legere notes, the Magenta Carrier that now covers over 260 million users in the U.S. with LTE-service wants to increase this number to 300 million Americans. Such LTE expansion is on carrier’s mind and plans for the new year of 2015.

The news continues. The company also wants to cover over 350 metro areas with its 700MHz spectrum and bring Wideband LTE to 150+ metro areas.

T-Mobile also wants to place third in the major U.S. networks and pass Sprint which is now the third company leaving the Magenta firm to stay the fourth. If you remember Legere’s speech in 2014, he had the exact same plans for passing Sprint which didn’t happen.

Do you believe this time the company can make predictions become real or not?

AT&T Rollover Minutes plan was available years ago when the first iPhone users as well as other smartphone owners liked to make phone calls and were not big fans of SMS messages and Internet surfing. This year T-Mobile introduced similar Data Stash option and updated AT&T Rollover Data plan surfaced once again to counter its competitor.

There is no need to speak about AT&T vs T Mobile data plan as both carriers are fighting for customers, and no one can disagree that both companies might have the same ideas. The new Rollover Data plan introduced by the Big Blue mobile operator doesn’t allow users to roll over their unused minutes into the next month like it was years ago, instead it focuses on data which is more popular nowadays.

If you have unused data you can roll it over into your next month’s billing period. Not all AT&T subscribers can get the new deal. Only iPhone users and other smartphone owners who are subscribed to the company’s Mobile Share Value plan are eligible to use Rollover Data option.

The company doesn’t charge for the new initiative. It becomes officially available beginning on January 25, 2015. Still note, that you can start using your unused data only in the next month and only once your full amount of data allotment has been used up.
The data can be used only in the next billing cycle and should expire after one such cycle is over, meaning the user will simply lose it.

It is interesting that the plan offered by T-Mobile in December does the same exact thing. Subscribers surely win when the major carriers focus on data and allow roll it over to the next month without additional charges.

The new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have the same modem 1.04.00. What does it mean? This is simple, and our dear reader can understand everything right now. Since you wish to unlock iPhone 6 iOS 8.0 (8.0.1, 8.0.2) and 8.1 (8.1.1) or the same iOS 8 firmware 1.04.00 badesand iPhone 6 Plus, ATT-iPhone-Unlock  is here to make your dream come true.

Millions of Apple fans have quickly updated to new iOS 8 versions, but all these firmwares cannot be unlocked with such methods as Gevey SIM, R-SIM and different software unlock tools because they don’t support the operating system yet and God knows if they are ever going to be updated to support it.

Luckily, there is a trusted company that can unlock iPhone 6 baseband 1.04.00 with nothing to worry about.

Unlock iPhone 6 Modem Firmware 1.04.00 with Ease

It is true that millions of users are following the news from Chinese hackers and companies hoping to see the simple unlock solution for the new iOS 8 versions. Still the market in China is silent and doesn’t give any promises.

There is no need to spend months in hopes and stay locked when you can order simple and reliable 1.04.00 unlock from the company that has already performed thousands of factory iPhone unlocks for all models, including iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.

When talking about baseband 1.04.00 unlock, there are several things worth talking about.

Ultrasn0w Software iOS 8 Unlock

If you remember those simple software unlocks that were popular years ago, you should know that Ultrasn0w hasn’t been updated to support iOS 8 and devs don’t even promises to work on the update meaning this is surely not the method that can unlock baseband 1.04.00 in 2014.

X-SIM, R-SIM, Gevey SIM Hardware Unlocks for iOS 8

If you love these hardware methods of unlocking the iPhone you should know about new Gevey SIM that is rumored to unlock iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. However, the companies can’t guarantee the support for all devices at the moment and it is not clear if these tools can unlock the most recent iOS 8.1.1.

Factory Unlock iPhone 6 1.04.00 by IMEI

ATT-iPhone-Unlock has confirmed it is unlocking both iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6 with baseband 1.04.00 and any version of Apple firmware, including the latest. This company works with all carriers so it doesn’t matter what mobile company you are locked to because ATT-iPhone-Unlock will use your IMEI number to make your SIM free.

Here is an instruction for successful iPhone 6 unlock:

1. Go to official ATT-iPhone-Unlock site.
2. Choose the unlock package for your iPhone model and status (clean or blacklisted).
3. Enter IMEI, email and pay for your order.
4. Wait till you receive unlock confirmation email and activate it.
5. Just connect to iTunes and your unlock will be activated.

Once you become SIM free you will be able to connect to all carriers by just switching the SIM cards on your iPhone 6 / 6 Plus.

Find out how to view Facebook hidden pictures. As usual you can hide photos from viewing in Facebook with the hide from timeline feature. But there is one third-party app that can make the magic and shows these “hidden” photos in all of their glory.

You may think that it can be Facebook bug. But it is not. It is known that in case you hide a photo from your timeline, there the warning will appear with information that snaps can still be viewed in Timelines of your friends. A little Chrome extension, Facebook hidden pictures viewer called Picturebook will find all public photo, and if you remain tagged in said photo.

One feature that do all the work called “hide from my Timeline”. And of course you can easily tell that is by no means a hack. However if you feel uncomfortable about the fact that someone check out all of the photos you’ve been tagged in by using Picturebook.

I think all of us were in such embarrassing situation where you have been tagged in those unflattering photos that we’d probably rather nobody saw. In that case you just have to switch to good old-fashioned de-tag to guarantee that snoopers cannot source them.

As you see the best thing is to delete photos completely. And don’t worry to that even if somebody has the Picturebook or a software, they won’t be able to view Facebook hidden pictures that you’d prefer never to see again in your life.

To do the de-tag option you need select “hidden from Timeline” from the drop-down located above a photo’s date place. After that from the pop-up push the “Report/Remove tag” option, and then select “I want to untag myself“.

That’s it! Remember, make sure that you’re not giving away more personal information and data to the world than you’d like, keep tabs on your privacy settings.

Dear Customers!

The time of carols, cakes, laughter and dreams that come true is here. We hope that you are feeling all the love and happiness we are sending you. The year of 2014 was a good year for millions of people across the world, and we believe that it brought you joy and a lot of positive impressions. This year AT&T iPhone Unlock made thousands of users happy by unlocking their iPhone 6, 5S, 5c and other models from the American carrier.

We want to tell you that the next 2015 will be a year of surprises. We promise to offer tasty discounts and different deals that you will love. As always, our team values each customers and brings high quality, fast and affordable AT&T iPhone 6 / 6 Plus / 5 / 5S / 5c / 4S / 3GS unlock that is safe to get, easy to activate and comes with a lifetime guarantee. It doesn’t void your warranty and it is the most popular method to become SIM free once and forever.

May your home be filled with unlocked iDevices, beautiful songs, delicious meals, candies and smiles that this festive season brings. We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

In this article you can check detailed description of iOS 8.1.2 vs iOS 8.2 beta speed test. With iOS 8 first release the iPhone 4s did not receive any updates. That’s why Apple provided smooth performance on all iOS 8 versions. The major aim of final public version of iOS 8.1.1 update was gained performance improvements and fixes for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S owners.

It is believed that iOS 8.2 will provide some more performance improvements for iPhone 4s users and hopefully eliminate any sluggishness. YouTuber kabriolett tried to find out that and compares iOS 8.1.2 with iOS 8.2 beta 2 speed on the iPhone 4s. You can see the result on the pictures below.

Let’s analyze the video comparison of iOS 8.1.2 vs iOS 8.2 beta speed test. It is evidently that the iOS 8.2 beta 2 is faster when you open or close applications and use other operations. Of course the iPhone 4s does have an aging A5 processor and not enough RAM to run iOS 8 as quick as it runs on the newer iOS devices. Although there are some positive improvements in speed with newer iOS versions and iOS 8.2 beta 2 does show that. Its final public version will have even more bugs fixed and perform more smoother on the iPhone 4s.

There are a lot of users who are still own the iPhone 4s and these devices did not receive any updates after iOS 8.x. you can see on the video below how iOS 8.2 beta 2 runs on the iPhone 4s.

The rumors claim that the iOS 8.2 update will come in the first quarter of 2015, together with the Apple Watch release.

Apple improves Touch Id security recently. As for majority of users Touch ID fingerprints security is more than enough. Although there are a lot of individuals that need to be under high security level.

Fingerprint matching is widely used technique for personal verification and identification. In particular, fingerprint identification involves scanning a sample of users fingerprint and storing fingerprint image unique characteristics. All these personal data may be compared to information of existing fingerprints in a database to determine proper identification of a user, such as for verification purposes.

AuthenTec’s co-founder Dale Setlak has just introduced and published a patent of improved level of security. It means that Apple is looking for increasing security measure level with one’s finger and Touch ID.

The Setlak’s patent application introduces detailed instructions of Touch ID sensor combination lock samples on iPhones and iPads screen and other form of additional protection measure. It might then drive the user for unlocking the iOS device to move their finger in a specific way.

There exists one way to do it. But there are some different methods in the patent, that Dale Setlak described in clear and understandable way, introduced for users a digital combination lock on the display to unlock it by rotating their finger over it.

The technology that is shown in the patent application was created in June 2013 and publicized on December 2014 by AuthenTec. It will be a logical step for the Touch ID sensor of iOS devices to use this type of extra security variant. Many users will appreciate this effort of Apple’s improve Touch Id security. It will be interesting to see if this method ever gets implemented in use.

If you live in the United Stated or UK you get a new option from the Cupertino-based compay. Apple Store USA Paypal payment option is also available in the UK. It works on online orders and you can now place your orders and checkout with PayPal just like it happens on eBay and other platforms. This is an additional way to pay for your purchase with Apple.

This is an interesting change added by the infamous iPhone maker. Apple Store US Paypal payment opportunity has been introduced for the first time in the company’s history. The iOS tech giant used to accept only debit and credit cards in its online stores.

It never used to work with PayPal in its iBookstore, iTunes Music store and App Store but everything is already working so you can pay for books, tunes and applications without entering your card number from now on.

Besides, this is not the only innovation. Does Apple Store accept PayPal online? Yes. It also supports the financing options which allow customers paying for the products they buy in several monthly instalments.

Some experts are really surprised by this move because the company has recently introduced its personal Apple Pay system which competes with PayPal. Now the company starts to promote a different option, but customers win in the end and this is what matters.

TIME 2014 Person of the Year is a big media event and the whole world is following it. Everyone wishes to guess who gets this award this year. It is interesting that Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, is among the nominees.

The annual award will soon find its winner, but for now Time has published the shortlist of all people who are on the nomination list in 2014. What Cook is recognized for? Well, he is well remembered for two things. Firstly, the new iPhone 6 Plus and 6 that were launched in September. Millions of users are already owning one of the two or even both devices by now. Secondly, Cook’s decision to come out as gay was a big thing.

This move was unexpected. But Cook wrote a letter for Bloomberg Businessweek where he mentioned his sexual orientation in order to inspire others.

The Person of the Year 2014 list of nominees also include Taylor Swift, Roger Goodell, Jack Ma, Vladimir Putin and others.

Who has influenced the 2014’s events the most? Who will be the winner? Can you guess his or her name?