Last year, HTC faced a PR nightmare when they started locking bootloaders on their devices. The Android development community joined forces against HTC, voicing their displeasure and ultimately forcing HTC to back down on its new policy. To make sure things were back on track, Peter Chou, HTC CEO got involved in the situation announcing [...]

HTCdev has been on a roll lately with new APIs and unlocked bootloaders for dozens of Android phones. Today, HTCdev has announced that the bootloader for the HTC Dream  can now be unlocked with the official HTC unlock tool. While there are very few people who still use the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) these days, the fact [...]

There was a lot of user feedback when HTC started to lock down the bootloaders in their Android devices, making it that much harder for people to apply the customisations that they have become used to. Whether it be to take advantage of custom ROMs or many of the applications out there that require root [...]