The power of the Android community is something that HTC underestimated, and after a large scale petition was unleashed on HTC to try and influence their decision to lock bootloaders, HTC announced that they where going to review their policy on locking bootloaders on Android devices. They had so much feedback from the community that they just announced they are officially reversing their decision. All future Android devices from HTC will be provided with unlocked bootloaders.
Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC posted the following statement on their Facebook page:
”There has been overwhelmingly customer feedback that people want access to open bootloaders on HTC phones. I want you to know that we’ve listened. Today, I’m confirming we will no longer be locking the bootloaders on our devices. Thanks for your passion, support and patience,” Peter Chou, CEO of HTC
This is great news for the Android community, and lets hope all manufactures learn from this and listen to their users.
From all of us, Thank you HTC for listening.
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This is awesome news. The future is looking bright once more
Now unlock the current ones…
I feel even better about having HTC phone now but as *(MARK)* said unlock the current ones hahah
Hmmm, I’m curious if the soon to be released HTC Sensation 4G will be unlocked. And what about the existing phones?
well depending on how HTC fixes this; most likely it will come locked, but you will probably have a software update as soon as you turn the device on which will contain a new bootloader. We shall see how this pans out on the coming days/weeks. However, The question still stands on how they will address current devices that are locked down. Such as the HTC G2, and MT4G, and other devices that needed to be hacked. It would also be great to see if the “fastboot oem unlock” command will soon work on all HTC devices, and if other manufactures will follow suit.
I could cry.
Long live the king! Android+htc rule!
I peed myself.
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