Motorola on Locked Bootloaders: “Buy Elsewhere,” Then Apologizes

by Michael Murphy
tagged Locked bootloaders, motorla, PR missteps

Motorola had a bit of a slip-up yesterday in PR department, but they were quick to try to make it better with their customers. On the comments to their YouTube channel, the following comment and response pair appeared yesterday — and have since been removed: Even though this phone seems to have the best hardware [...]

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Aug

2010

Verizon Droid 2 Walkthrough

by Chris Moor
tagged Android, droid2, motorla, Verizon

Here is one of the first-look video’s done by Derek from Verizon Wireless, showing off the latest Verizon smartphone , the Droid 2. It is a simple walk-through of the Droid 2 features, and boy do they look good! Has anyone pre-ordered the Droid 2? What do you think of it? Let me know in [...]

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Jul

2010

Motorola says buy from another manufacturer if you want custom ROM’s

by Chris Moor
tagged Android, bugless beast, custom, cyanogen, droid, droid 2, droidx, Google, motorla, nexus one, ROM

Motorola has answered all of the questions about the strongly secured bootloader on the Droid X and the soon to be Droid 2. Lori Fraleigh from Motorola stated “Securing the software on our handsets, thereby preventing a non-Motorola ROM image from being loaded, has been our common practice for many years. This practice is driven [...]

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