It sounds like HTC might actually make good on its promise to deliver all future Android smartphones with unlocked bootloaders, as a Rogers employee has stated on the company’s Red Board blog that the upcoming HTC EVO 3D will in fact ship with a wide-open bootloader. Of course HTC reserves the right to reverse course on [...]

Late on Sunday evening, HTC took to its Facebook page to provide a status update on its plans to provide unlocked bootloaders for several of its popular Android smartphones. This coming August, software updates designed to facilitate bootloader unlocks will begin rolling out for the global variant of the Sensation, T-Mobile’s Sensation 4G, and Sprint’s HTC EVO 3D. [...]

Everyone knows about the Droid Incredible on Verizon and the HTC Evo on Sprint, and how, because they both run on CDMA-spec networks, they are incompatible with any other network. Contrast this to, for example, a Nexus One, which out of the box comes unlocked and compatible with multiple GSM carriers around the world (in [...]