The Motorola PHOTON 4G, announce progressing currently by Sprint, is an intensely appealing device braggadocio a 4.3 in. qHD display, Tegra 2 processor, and universe phone capabilities. Those are good though there is something else that creates a Photon 4G a special phone. It’s going to be entrance with an unbarred bootloader.
You see, Motorola Android phones like a Droid X, Droid X2, Droid 2, a list goes on, have had their bootloaders sealed by Motorola that has done developers have to work intensely tough to find workarounds in to concede owners to customize a devices.
Motorola’s competitor, HTC, recently announced that all of their arriving inclination would have unbarred bootloaders including a HTC Sensation and a HTC EVO 3D and it looks like Motorola might have had a change of heart as well.
While this is outrageous for Motorola fans and destiny Photon 4G owners, it’s also intensely overwhelming for those meditative about a Motorola Droid Bionic, Verizon’s arriving 4G LTE device. While zero is for certain yet, it appears really expected that a Droid Bionic could arrive with an unbarred bootloader that would now mortar it to a tip of wish lists everywhere.
Again, zero is for certain nonetheless though it’s substantially time to get those fingers crossed.
Via: Android and Me
Update: Motorola reliable to us that it’s their “intention to embody a unlockable/relockable bootloader in program releases starting in late 2011, where user and channel partners will concede it. However, this underline is not enclosed in a program found on PHOTON 4G.”
Le sigh.
Category: Mobile