For everyone that has been complaining about Motorola locking their bootloaders, I’m sure this is going to make you very excited.
Motorola has announced though their blog that a new version of the Motorola RAZR will be coming first to Europe and then to the U.S. “in the coming months.” This is a spin on the original RAZR, not the recently released RAZR MAXX, and will be known as the RAZR Developer Edition. The big headling feature of this newest rendition of the RAZR is an unlockable bootloader. There was no mention of a Canadian release, but for the true developers at heart will have no problems ordering online for the Developer edition of the Motorola RAZR.
Motorola stated on their website:
We have some news for the community of people interested in unlockable/relockable bootloaders. Today, we announced a step forward in Europe with the availability of an unlockable version of our most in-demand product: the Motorola RAZR Developer edition. This solution allows us to continue meeting our carrier and regulatory obligations, but also meets the needs being expressed by our developer community.
They also mentioned a U.S release in the future as well. Shortly after this went live, it was pulled back off the internet. It would appear someone was a little too trigger happy about this exciting news.
There was no mention of a Canadian release, but the true developers and rom cookers will have no problem finding a place online to ship them to Canada.
[Source: AndroidAndMe]