FOR ANYONE who has spent hours trawling the Net for hacks that unlock GSM mobile phones, the Simable is a gift. It unlocked the INQ’s Nokia N95, for example, in seconds.

The reality is that most handset vendors – particularly Nokia, Samsung and LG, have been getting much slicker at ‘locking’ GSM handsets into the particular network which supplied the mobile in the first place.

That can prove quite frustrating especially given that UK network operators, for example, are locking their post-paying customers into 18 month contracts. So you can’t easily take your new phone to a new network.

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