So, you’ve always wanted to unlock your Blackberry, but too many things have been holding you back, two things in particular:

1. You don’t want to lose your number
2. You don’t want to change your phone (Blackberry).

Sadly, I don’t have a solution to problem #1, but I certainly have a solution to problem # 2. Most people think that unlocking their Blackberry is either too expensive, too technical or dangerous.

Well it’s definitely not expensive, not dangerous and as long as you can read and follow instructions it’s relatively easy to do (You can have an unlocked Blackberry in less than 10 minutes).

What Exactly is “Unlocking”

If you bought your phone from one of our (Jamaica) carriers (Digicel (Ugh, Digicel), LIME or Claro then it’s probably “locked” to their network. i.e if you were to put  a LIME or Claro sim card into your locked Digicel phone then it would not work. Unlocking your phone solves that problem, giving you the ability to use your phone on any network you choose.

Hopefully that was as layman as possible.

Unlocking

One caveat before you continue reading…You need a credit card, a Google Checkout account or Paypal.

I’ve been using iunlockblackberry.com/ for a while now. The charge is the same for whatever blackberry you need to unlock, $10 USD, that’s little under $900 JMD.

I can vouch for them as  I’ve used them many times.  All they need is your IMEI, Email Address ( To send the code that you’ll use to unlock your blackberry), The Network that your phone is locked to, the Country and your model Blackberry. Their turnaround time is good so you should get the code in less than 10 minutes.

Whatever questions you’ll probably have (They have great instructions on how to unlock) is answered on their website, but if not you can always leave a comment and I’ll do my best to help.

As an aside: Blackberries really suck. Do yourself a favor and get an iPhone or an Android.