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.

Oppo Find 7a Unboxing (Video)

Oppo, a Chinese electronicsย manufacturer is getting a lot of press lately. If you haven’t heard, the reason for this press is their two new flagship devices, the Oppo Find 7 and the Oppo Find 7a. The former is the real show stopper with it’s super high Quad HD 5.5″ display […]

How to Get a Superhero Boot Logo in iOS 7 (Video)

Sick of the Apple boot logo when you turn on your phone? Happen to also be a comic book fan? Then this jailbreak tweak is for you. After installing this simple Cydia package, you’ll have the option to choose from Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and the Flash. All

How to Add a Weather Widget to your Lock Screen in iOS 7 (Video)

Cydget is great jailbreak tweak that allows you to essentially add widgets to your iOS 7 lock screen (like rising bars instead of a clock, for example). Today we have a jailbreak tweak that uses Cydget to display a fantastic looking weather widget on your lock screen called iOS 7

Custom ROM on the HTC One M8

How to Flash a Custom ROM on the HTC One M8 (Video)

A custom ROM is a custom version of Android for your device. After you have rooted your device and flashed a custom recovery on it, you can then use the recovery to flash a custom ROM. Thanks to a sizeable community of developers, there are a lot of these third-party

How to Gain S-Off on your HTC One M8 (Firewater Method)(Video)

So you’ve rooted your HTC One M8 and now you want more? So be it. The next step would be to gain S-Off, or Security Off, on your device. This allows you to flash other parts of the system (which isn’t included in just rooting the M8). One of the

How to Remove the Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview on Nokia Devices

So maybe you’re done messing around with the new developer preview of Windows Phone 8.1 and ready to go back to Windows Phone 8. Maybe the new features just aren’t quite ready for daily use in your opinion or they just aren’t enough for you to justify using the, essentially,

Samsung Galaxy S5 Review (Video)

Regardless of this or any other review, for the most part, Samsung will sell a lot of the Galaxy S5’s (and, indeed, already have). With the previous Galaxy S4 and even the Galaxy Note 3 device, Samsung has made themselves pretty comfortable in the world of Android manufacturers claiming the

Windows Phone 8.1 New Features (Video)

Windows Phone 8.1 has brought a bunch of new features to Microsoft’s Windows Phone that are getting them a lot of attention across the web. From huge functional changes like the “Action Center” (a notification center similar to iOS and Android) to creative aethstetic changes like the new background image

How to Install Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview (Video)

Microsoft’s new version of Windows Phone has just become available to developers and will be available to the public in a few months. This update is huge for Microsoft as it adds a lot of features that many people are feeling “matures Windows Phone” and makes a little more competitive

How to Root the HTC One M8 (All-in-One Toolkit Method)(Video)

Thanks to HTC’s amazing policy on unlocking bootloaders (essentially that they promise to always allow you to do so), rooting an HTC device isn’t too hard and the HTC One M8 is no different. It may seem like a lot of steps, but they are all relatively easy and fool

Nokia's Android Walkthrough

Nokia’s Android Complete Walkthrough (Video)

Nokia finally did it. They made an Android device (three in fact). But, they did manage to change Android quite a bit with their custom UI and even took out most (if not all) of Google’s presence in the device and replaced it with either their own software or a

Samsung TouchWiz Walkthrough

Samsung TouchWiz UX 3.0 Complete Walkthrough (Video)

Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 is getting plenty of attention (and sales apparently), but alongside the new device is a new version of Samsung’s custom user interface they put on top of Android called TouchWiz UX. If you are getting a new Samsung Galaxy S5 and coming from any other Android

Nokia X Unboxing

Nokia X Unboxing (Video)

Apparently, and further to my point about Nokia not creating the Nokia X for US buyers, I had a bit of trouble importing this device. After some shipping issues though, it’s finally here. If you are unfamiliar, the Nokia X is Nokia’s first attempt at making an Android device. It

Samsung Galaxy S5 Unboxing

Samsung Galaxy S5 Unboxing (Video)

My Samsung Galaxy S5 finally has arrived (after a bit of trouble with the United States Postal Service) and, as I did with the HTC One M8, I figured the first thing to do is to do an unboxing video for anyone interested to see what it comes with. The