A Simple Way to Unlock Your Blackberry Storm 9500 and Use it With Any Service Provider Worldwide

The BlackBerry Storm 9500 was unveiled in November 2008. This is RIM's very first Blackberry mobile phone to use "Surepress", the latest touch screen display that reacts like a physical key pad by giving off a clicking feeling every single time you touch on the screen. Several other significant options on the device also include a 3.25 inch display, an accelerator so that you can rotate the display, 3.2 mp camera, 528mhz Qualcomm cpu and 1 gig of storage space.

The blackberry Apllication Center will allow end users to download a wide range applications like Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, Google maps, instant messaging apps, and much more.

There is good and bad news in regards to the connection to the web. Even though the phone does make use of HSDPA for faster internet browsing on supported networks, the unfortunate news is that there is no Wi-fi. In addition, if you get the Blackberry unlocked and want to make use of it on North American GSM carriers such as Cingular AT&T or T-mobile, you're going to be limited to using their slower EDGE connection.

Blackberry 9500 Specifications:

General

2G: Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G: Network HSDPA 2100

Size

Measurements: 112.5 x 62.2 x 14 mm

Weight: 155 g

Display

Type: TFT capacitive touch screen, 65K colors

Size: 360 x 480 pixels, 3.25 inches

- Accelerometer sensing unit for auto-rotate

Sound

Notification types: Vibration, MP3 ring tones

Loudspeaker: Yes

3.5mm jack port: Yes

Memory space

Phone book: Virtually endless entries as well as fields, Photocall

Call records: Yes

Internal: 1 Gigabyte storage, 128 Megabytes Memory, 192 Megabytes ROM

Card slot: microSD, up to a maximum of 16 Gb, 8 Gb card enclosed

Data

GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 killerbytes per second

EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kb per second

3G: HSDPA, 7.2 Mb per second

WLAN: No

Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP

Infrared port: No

USB: Yes, microusb v2.0

Digital camera

Primary: 3.15 Mega pixel, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Features: Geo-tagging, image stabilization

Video: Yes, QVGA

Secondary: No

Features

Operating-system: BlackBerry Operating-system

Cpu: 528 Megahertz ARM 11 cpu, Adreno 130 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7600 chipset

Messaging: Text, MMS, Email, Instant messaging

Internet browser: HTML

Radio: No

Games: Yes + downloadable

Colors: Black

GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support

Java: Yes

- BlackBerry maps

- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)

- MP3/WMA/eAAC+ player

- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player

- Organizer

- Voice dial/memo

Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1400 mAh

Stand-by: Up to 360 h

Talk time: Up to 5 h 30 minutes

If you bought your Blackberry and wish to switch carriers, you will have to get your cellphone unlocked. If you're questioning why the phone comes locked, let me explain why. Service providers will usually provide the cell phone for significantly less then retail and recoop the expense over the period of a few months (depending upon the length of the contract you signed). By locking the device to their network, this helps reassure them that you won't just use them to get the phone at a discount, terminate your contract and switch to a cheaper service provider.

Once your mobile phone is unlocked, you'll be able to use a simcard from any other GSM service providers. A lot of people make use of mobile phone unlocking before they need to take a trip, in order to purchase a simcard through the local cellphone service provider in the city they may be visiting. This enables them to avoid the roaming fees that their service provider back home will charge them (when using your cellphone in another country, you will be subject to high roaming fees, which can easily be avoided by using your unlocked cellular phone with a local simcard).

Unlocking your cellphone is straightforward, all you need is an unlock code. You can buy your code by going to our website CellUnlockCode.com (complete url is at the bottom of this article). As soon as your code is ready, it will be emailed to you (it can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours depending on the unlock service purchased) Once you've got your Blackberry unlock code, all you need to do is follow the instructions below to enter in your code.

This procedure can be done with or without a simcard inserted into your Blackberry

1. Power on your Blackberry and click on the "Manage Connections" icon. Select the option "Turn off all connections". All connections will be disabled.

2. Go back to the Home screen and click the "Options" icon and choose "Advanced Options"

3. Navigate down and select "SIM Card" from the list

4. Push the Blackberry key and choose "Show Keyboard" to bring up the keyboard

5. Hit the following keys in order: MEPD

6. On the following screen, type MEP then [ALT BUTTON] then the number 2 (NOTE: You do not see any text displayed on the screen when typing)

7. A prompt will show up requesting the MEP code. Enter in the unlock code you received from from cellunlockcode.com

8. Restart your phone

Once your cellular phone unlock code has been entered and accepted, your phone will be unlocked. You will be able insert a simcard from from any gsm service provider and the phone will quickly pick up the network. In some instances you may have to modify some settings on the mobile phone (e-mail along with other web related services) by pointing them to your new provider.

For those that need a Blackberry unlock code, unlocking instructions, or help unlocking their phone, come visit CellUnlockCode's unlock code website.