Is my iPhone 4S worth fixing?

My friend give me her iPhone 4S when she was moving to America but the battery has exploded and the both the front and back are smashed, I have no idea if the phone is on contract and I can't get in contact with my friend, if the phone is fixable and I pay for it to be fixed and I turn it on and it is contract is there anyway of unlocking it?

Just get a new phone, anything, even a Nokia brick sounds better than that

It will cost you more to fix than it will to get an iPhone 5 16GB with a 2year contract so no i don't think it's worth fixing…

Yes you can definitely unlock it by jailbreaking your iphone and by the way i'm surprised to hear a battery explode and smashing a phone like that, we have been in mobile phone industry for over 20 years and i have never heard of such an incident to happen.anyway it depends on the damage done, if its just the back cover and the front lcd and digitizer then it can be fixed but if it damaged the mother board or other important parts then it might not be fixable.here in australia back cover and lcd together would cost you around $100. I recommend that you get it checked and if its fixable, then simply get a new lcd and back and unlock it after jailbreaking.enjoy

All you can do is take it back to see if they fix it. If they can't, you get a new one completely free of charge. Cool right? So take it back to your nearest Apple store right now!

Unlocking it is possible but it costs a bit pricey for locked UK iPhones.

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