David Cogen

David opened a cell phone store on his college campus and started TheUnlockr.com as a personal tech blog back in 2009 along side. He gets an unnatural excitement out of showing others new things about their tech that they might not have known. Reach out to him on the following social networks and say hi.

Acer Liquid Officially Released!

If you haven’t heard about this phone yet, it is the first Android device from Acer. And while Acer isn’t the most prominent phone maker (to say the least) the hardware specs on this phone do deserve some attention. Snapdragon CPU underclocked to 768mhz (but we can put it to […]

The Google Phone

Ok, so we now have confirmation via some reliable sources that Google is indeed going to be manufacturing and selling their own branded handset. This is not Android on an HTC, LG, or whoever device, it will be Android running on a Google branded device (which might be made by

Android 2.1 Spotted on an HTC Hero?

So according to a source over at BGR, someone over at a French blog has screen shots of 2.1 (no not 2.0, 2.1) running on their HTC Hero. This can’t help but raise the question as to when HTC will even release their 2.0 version for the HTC Heroes of

A Ton Of Tips and Tricks for the HTC HD2

  Wanted to share this with any of our HD2 users (or soon to be users), TBoy2000 over at XDA-Developers has compiled a great list of tweaks to enable things like N Wireless, Thumbnails when selecting back in Opera, enabling 5MP instead of 4MP Widescreen, and a whole bunch more.

How To: Create A Continuous Wallpaper on The Nokia N900

Not satisfied with the wallpapers that come on the phone? Don’t want a separate image for each of the homescreens? No problem. I. Find an Image and Resize It 1. First you will need to find the image you want to use. The best way to find an image that

How To: Set Up The Irreco Universal Remote on Your N900

So you saw the YouTube video of the guy controlling his TV with the Nokia N900? But you’ve looked everywhere for that app and either can’t find it or found it and just can’t get it to work? Here’s something to help. I. Enable More Apps on Your N900 1.

How To: Get More Apps on Your Nokia N900

So you finally got your hands on an N900? But when you go into the Application Manager there are a lot less apps than you thought there would be, right? Well, I’ll show you how to increase the number of apps 10x or more 🙂 I. Enabling Maemo Extras 1.

Nokia N900 Still NOT Released!

Ok, so pretty much everyone is reporting that the Nokia N900 has been released and is ready to be picked up in a Flagship store near you (if near you is New York, Chicago, or London). But guess what happens when you call any of those stores, “We have no

Want to Play With A Nokia N900 Right Now? Well Kinda…

So it may not be the actual device, but it sure helps to qwell the waiting for the actual phone to come out! Here is how to set up the Nokia N900 emulator so you can pretend you have your new toy 🙂 Thanks VenomRush! I. Download the Virtual Machine

How To: Root Your Sprint Hero in One Click! (Updated 01.10.10!)

PLEASE TRY OUR NEW, EASIER PROCEDURE AND SEE IF IT WORKS FOR YOU, IF NOT THEN COME BACK TO THIS PROCEDURE AND CONTINUE. HOW TO ROOT THE HTC HERO (ANDROOT METHOD) Here is the new Flashrec method to root your Sprint Hero in one click and flash a custom recovery

How To Set Up Internet and Email on Your Unlocked Blackberry

So you’ve just unlocked your Blackberry, but the internet isn’t working? Well here’s how to get it up and running. I. Send the Service Books 1. Easiest way to do this is to simply call your provider and ask for them. So call the carrier you are using on the

How To Unlock a Blackberry

Want to use your Blackberry on another GSM carrier? Here’s how. I. Find Your IMEI 1. On your Blackberry goto Options > Status OR look on the white sticker under the battery. 2. Write down the IMEI from that screen or sticker. II. Get An Unlock Code 1. Either do

How To: Install Google Navigation on Your Donut Phone

!NO NEED TO DO THIS PROCEDURE! GOOGLE HAS RELEASED NAVIGATION FOR ALL DONUT PHONES, GOTO THE MARKET AND SEARCH FOR IT THEN JUST CLICK INSTALL! Want the new Google Navigation app on your phone? Here you go. Thanks XDA-Developers Community! Thanks Theomajigga! Thanks Eric! I. Before you begin (READ THIS)

How To: Root Your Sprint HTC Hero

There is now a faster method to root using a new FlashRec app! Click here for the new procedure! How To Root Your Sprint Hero in One Click! !UPDATE 12.01.09: If you went to the above procedure and it did not work for you, please use the procedure below. Finally

HTC Hero vs Sprint Hero vs Droid Eris

Over at EngadgetMobile, they did a nice little comparison of the GSM unlocked version, the Sprint CDMA version, and the Verizon CDMA version (Droid Eris) of the HTC Hero. They point out a bunch of differences that are good to note (my personal favorite as always is the unlocked version,