Help Can someone please help me root this phone?

[GAMESHARQ]

I'd like to root this phone so that I can update the OS version past 2.3.6.

I've done some searching online, but all of the guides I found are from 2012 or prior and a lot of the links don't work any more.

Can anyone please help? I'm on T-Mobile if that makes any difference.

 

[Jheist]

Did you ever figure out how to root it?.. I plan on buying one soon and if I can't root it its a no go.