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.

How to Use Your Phone Overseas (Ultimate Guide)

Using your phone overseas can be as easy as just turning it on, but using your phone like that overseas will cost you more than your hotel costs most likely. If you want to use your mobile phone overseas, you can do so without incurring a ton of charges by […]

Unlocking Your Phone is Now Illegal and Why That’s Ridiculous

Apparently, as of today, unlocking your phone for use on another carrier is now illegal under the DMCA’s rules. Here’s why that is ridiculous. Firstly, this is only referring to the unlocking of a phone to use it on another carrier. An example of this would be taking an iPhone

How to Unroot the Nexus 4 (MSkip Toolkit Method)(Video)

Maybe you’ve had enough fun playing with your rooted Nexus 4 or maybe you have an issue with it and need to send it in for warranty. Either way, unrooting it is just as easy as rooting it thanks to MSkip’s toolkit. Plug it in, push some commands and viola!

How To Root the Nexus 4 (MSkip Toolkit Method)(Video)

Google’s latest iteration of their Nexus line up, the Nexus 4, is quite the looker. Enclosed in glass, subtle etching to resemble the original Nexus wallpaper, and a slightly raised glass on the front. But besides it’s good looks it also has quite a powerful internal spec sheet as well with

How to Enable Flash on the Microsoft Surface (IE 10)

While Microsoft did include Adobe Flash in the new Internet Browser 10 that comes on the Microsoft Surface, you may be left wondering why some websites are still asking you to install Flash. Well, as it turns out, even though there is Flash in the browser, Microsoft only allows specific websites

Nexus 4 Getting LTE on AT&T? How to See If You Get It, Too.

That at least seems to be the case according to a thread over on XDA started by a guy on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. Before you get your hopes up though, it seems that it is a VERY rare scenario and most likely won’t work for you on your

HTC One X+: Quad-Core Comes to America, but What Took So Long?

Just like most of you, I, too, have high hopes for the HTC One X+. This is HTC’s first quad-core Android device. Well that’s not true, the HTC One X was the first. What’s that, you say? “The HTC One X was a dual-core device, David, you must be an

QR Codes: What They Are, How to Use Them, and Creative Examples

It has come to my attention that there are a lot of people that still don’t know what QR codes are. Why is this interesting? Well, because I guarantee that most people have probably seen one, whether they knew what it was or not. Ever seen one of these before?

Apple Maps, an Explanation of the Debacle

Okay, so firstly, if you are not familiar with this latest debacle to hit the blogosphere, there have been a large number of complaints from iOS 6 users (the version of operating system that comes on the iPhone 5) about the fact that Apple has removed the tried and true

Apple’s Ingenious iPhone Business Model

I heard a statistic yesterday that got me thinking. Did you know that a large percentage of iPhone 5 customers were iPhone 4S users? Now, let’s be honest, we can all be pretty confident that something like another 45 percent of those sales are coming from users of other iPhone

How to Hard Reset a Bricked Nexus 7 With Your PC

Maybe you’ve been rooting your Nexus 7 and putting ROMs on it and messed up, or maybe your Nexus 7 just up and died randomly (happens sometimes). Either way if you can’t get it to turn on, you might think you need to go through the colossal hassle of sending

How To Play Nintendo 64 Games on Your Nexus 7

One of the big benefits of the Asus Nexus 7 is it’s serious processing power. The device has a quad-core processor and a twelve core GPU which means it can handle any video game Android has to offer. But what about games, say, a console has to offer? Well, let’s