14 DAY TRIAL // Another company is capitalizing on the hype of Apple’s latest announcements claiming to offer a solution for jailbreaking and unlocking your iPhone 4S under iOS 5.
The news hit Google’s index via the Manteca Bulletin community blogs, where user Kent made an entry titled “iOS5 - Unlock iPhone 4S/4 Jailbreak Untehtered” which links to a site called Unlock iPhone 4S.
They offer a $24.95 service of unlocking and jailbreaking your Apple handset, with the promise to let you roam free on the airwaves of all wireless operators. The jailbreak is supposedly untethered, meaning it goes beyond what the iPhone Dev Team has achieved with Redsn0w so far.
“We have the technology today to unlock and jailbreak your iPhone 4S! Unlock your iPhone 4S lets you select any carrier for your phone service,” says the site.
“Not only do we offer extremely convenient and attractively priced unlocking technology, we’re your one-stop shop for jailbreaking your iPhone 4S as well. The major advantage to jailbreaking any iPhone is that you will have access to an enormous number of applications not otherwise available,” reads their offer. I advise our readers to exercise caution when greeted by such offers.
Known jailbreak solutions are always provided free of charge, and there’s a very little chance the people behind unlockiphone-4s.net are more talented than the code-savvy iPhone Dev Team who, so far, haven’t yet fully cracked iOS 5.
I reported in the past that businesses relying on the customer’s eagerness to unlock their device sometimes proved to be scams.
For example, some sites (which advertised their business in a similar manner to the one I’m talking about today) simply repackaged existing, free jailbreak / unlock tools offered by the likes of Geohot, Chronic Dev, and iPhone Dev Team, and sold them online.
Customers who applied for a refund never got an answer, despite the sites advertising impeccable customer service, phone support, the works. Some (as you would expect) even put up fake customer reviews to convince people to buy.