Verizon launched the Galaxy S III alongside other carriers like AT&T earlier this year but there was one key difference between their phone and other offerings: the bootloader was locked. Verizon did this because they don’t want users customizing the…
Posted July 11, 2012, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
Samsung will sell a special developer edition of the Galaxy S III to customers on the Verizon network for $599 through their developer portal. This smartphone will come with an unlocked bootloader, unlike the standard phone that Verizon sells where…
Keeping up with their promise to make smartphones more root-friendly, HTC has now provided a general timeframe for bringing bootloader unlocking to its newest Android phones. Apparently the process will be two-fold: the company will issue a "maintenance release" for…
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