Unlocking Airtel HTC Touch

After the bomb blasts menace in Bangalore yesterday, I thought it was all over. We went to watch ‘The Dark Knight’ on Sunday morning. My teammate called me and informed that a live bomb has been defused. Well, life can’t wait for anything. So, be alert and keep going.

After we came back from the movie, Neeraj dropped by and asked me which mobile phone to buy. He had a sexy HTC touch smart phone, so asked him what the problem was. He’s moving to Chennai and his HTC is locked with Airtel. Now we had two choices, go out and buy a new phone or unlock the HTC and use it with some other GSM provider.

Little research on Yahoo! Search threw some light on how to unlock HTC. There were many paid services around, but using credit cards on random sites is not a good idea and we Indians are fond of free stuff. So, I narrowed down on to a free stuff. Here is a blog that talks on the topic – to unlock a HTC Touch. Three simple steps, your HTC will be unlocked.

I feel the locking concept is seriously insane. But, he chose to buy it after knowing the fact that it’s locked with Airtel. Any way, we’ve unlocked it and now it works with any provider.

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