"One example they noted was that devices locked to a specific carrier will not come with an unlocked bootloader."


Noone will pay attention to this important line... They will continue to just bash Motorola for being smart enough to implement this for Verizon faster than everyone else...

Long live Android!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very nice. 2011 is the year Sony Ericsson turns itself around.

I noticed they said was "carrier-locked" phones wont have an unlocked boot loader. That's understandable - you have to make compromises. I always felt that they should make devices that have unlocked boot loaders for developers at least. I hope Motorola and others doe this as well.

It is a bummer that they won't be unlocking the bootloaders for specific carriers but at least they are giving people the option to buy the hardware and use it however they want. I'm glad to see that the big companies are at least noticing that there is demand out there for open phones and making some concessions to the rooting/modding community. Now if enough people speak with their $ and pay to get these unlocked phones it may lead to more handsets with unlocked bootloaders. I don't know if I can take the hit to get an unsubsidized phone but if I can afford it I would love to be the proud owner of an unlocked Xperia Play.

Heres to hoping one of those have a hardware keyboard.... If so I know what im saving up for next.

So this is GSM only then because nobody sells carrier unlocked cdma, VZW/sprint, phones for US carriers...

Should still work no? Also they might be the first.... doesn't say anywhere that it is cdma/gsm.

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