According to the official HTC Facebook fan page, HTC has revised their bootloader policy for Android handsets and will start shipping every handset from this point onwards with an unlocked bootloader.

The statement was given by HTC’s CEO Peter Chou himself:

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,

So you’re wondering what’s the advantage of having an unlocked bootloader right? Its simple, to gain root access much more quickly without the hacker or developer working his sweat off. Rooting your device is like jailbreaking it so you can do things with your device which the manufacturer doesn’t allow you to. But it makes me wonder, what about the devices which HTC has already shipped with locked bootloaders, will HTC push out an OTA update to unlock them or what? [via RedmondPie]

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