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New Motorola RAZR™ Developer Edition will feature unlocked bootloader in Europe

January 30, 2012 : BY Motorola

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.

In the coming months, we also plan to introduce an unlockable developer device in the United States through MOTODEV, Motorola’s global developer network. Stay tuned to Motorola’s Developer site for additional info.

EU-based consumers can pre-order the Motorola RAZR Developer Edition through the Motorola Shop. Post-purchase, the MOTODEV site will contain all support info for unlocking, relocking and locating build files, as well as access to additional developer resources. The Developer Edition will have all the same great features as the Motorola RAZR: an impossibly thin design, hyper-vibrant Super AMOLED Advanced display, KEVLAR(R) fiber and more.

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  • Dan Ehresman

    Sooooo basically you guys are reneging on you’re previous statement that we believed you would unlock you’re bootloaders for CURRENT phones by the end of 2011? So my Razr is useless to me now and I have to pay full price for another one to get the promises you made? I smell a class action lawsuit here. Way to lose 10′s of thousands of devs including this one. I will be buying a HTC phone from now on. Way to screw over you’re customers Moto. I used to feel bad about you guy losing your jobs when Google buys you out, but now I can’t wait. I will make sure that everyone I know never ever buys a Moto phone again. Anyone that treats post customers this way does not deserve business from anyone I know.

    A little bit of advice. If you are going to go through with this, I would suggest setting up a program to allow current Razr customers to swap their phones out. If not, you will have a harsh backlash from us.

    Sincerely,
    A forever lost customer and active developer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/luis1987 Luigi Nasta

    Are you crazy?!A new one Razr with unlocked bootloader?!?And what about thousands of customers who bought the normal version of the Razr?!?

  • http://twitter.com/dima_sk8er Dmitry Gerasimov

    Ok, Moto. Original RAZR was my first and last phone from this company. Will no more buy Motorola.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385559829 Steffen Master

    “Die grundsätzliche Möglichkeit des Haftungsausschlusses bzw. der Haftungsbeschränkung ist im Rahmen der Schuldrechtsmodernisierung 2002 erheblich eingeschränkt worden. § 475 Abs. 1 BGB verbietet im Falle eines Verbrauchsgüterkaufs vorbehaltlich eines Ausschlusses bzw. einer Beschränkung des Schadensersatzanspruches (vgl. § 475 Abs. 3 BGB) die generelle Freizeichnung des Verkäufers von Mängelhaftungsansprüchen des Käufers.”

    aber Moto schreibt auf der Seite dreißt: “Dieses Gerät unterliegt nicht den Garantie- und Gewährleistungsansprüchen.”

    warum sollte man zB auf die HW der Gerätes keinen Gewährleistungsanspruch haben, wenn ja nur die SW anders ist.

    Dass muss Moto dann nochmal vor geriht erklären…

  • Thorsten Keidel

    too late… last week i got the Galaxy Nexus :(

  • http://twitter.com/iBolski Ivan Samuelson

    Sorry, Motorola. Too little, too late. We don’t want to have to purchase ANOTHER phone to get an unlocked bootloader. We want the CURRENT phones we own to have the bootloaders unlocked.

    NOT a good move. You have basically thumbed your noses at us. Therefore, my next smartphone, and all future smartphones, will NOT be Motorola because of your reneging on the “promise” to unlock bootloaders in the last quarter of 2011. HTC will be my next phone. They have unlocked their bootloaders ON the Verizon network. Apparently, they have no problems with doing this and don’t use Verizon as an excuse.

    I have asked you about this MULTIPLE times and you have NEVER answered me. I have not been abusive in my emails to you and yet, you still ignore me. Therefore, I am moving on with a company that has shown they care about their customers

  • Anonymous

    This is your sorry excuse for fulfilling your unlocked bootloader promise? Between this and the lack of ICS for the Atrix… sorry, Moto. I’m done. No more of your products for me, next phone shall be an HTC or a Samsung, where they actually care about the consumer.

  • Joshua Sweeney

    My Droid Bionic and my wife’s Droid X2 wil be the last Motorola phones we ever own.

    Good job, Moto.

  • https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmvcQCDlauwasd0SDtVK0ZC9F6_s0laWXA cybik

    Good job pissing off your loyal customers.

  • akshat oswal

    I bought the Backflip in India which you guys did not upgrade to 2.1 in-spite of the fact that it was realeased in the US . Plus a locked bootloader so that it becomes difficult for any normal person to load an aftermarket Android OS. I think I made one more mistake by purchasing RAZR. As if your customer support in India is poor. You end up loosing devs like me who trust the brand even though the company does not itself believe in its products and after sales service . And I do not feel sorry . I am selling my RAZR and going for the HTC

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1331453510 Tomasz Mi

    Great. I have just decided. I take a Galaxy Nexus instead of Razr, and I recommend everyone to do it as well.

  • http://twitter.com/StMartinOfTours St. Martin Of Tours

    Let’s sum the reality of this announcement up:

    Slap in the customer’s face #1:

    - full price for a “developer” phone

    Slap in the customer’s face #2:

    - no 1 or 2 year contract pricing 

    Slap in the customer’s face #3:

    - no additional “New every 2 years” subsidy pricing, at least on VZW, possibly on AT&T or others (not that I’d know AT&T/others, cause I’ve never been with them)

    Slap in the customer’s face #4:

    - carrier greed, instead of sensitivity to customer’s needs/wants/desires

    Slap in the customer’s face #5:

    - no -real- difference between a “developer” vs a “regular” phone

    Slap in the customer’s face #6:

    - lies and excuses about why carriers should be anything more than a dumb, QoS pipe through which they can address any and all misbehavior with constant, round the clock, human-aided network monitoring

    Afterthought:

    Buy HTC or Samsung. Korean vendors care more about what you  want than American vendors/carriers. I know Moto will say “we blame Verizon, and we could care less if your device is unlocked”, but if they REALLY were committed to such a vision, they would have pounded VZW’s CEO/CTO over the head with their “ANY APP/ANY DEVICE” walled-garden bulls**t promise they made 2 years ago, until they gave in.Apparently, ANY doesn’t have the same meaning in Verizon’s dictionary. Maybe some lawyer ought to give them a re-education.

  • http://www.motoask.com motorola droid

    Dear Motorolla,
    Too late.
    Love, your ex loyal customers.

  • Gemma Bagiaji

    i dont like you anymore…thats to sum all of my feeling right now to you Motorola.
    im not gonna buy any of your products anymore, until you care about your costumers not their MONEY!!!

  • Akashshr

    Its not motorola that keeps your bootloaders locked, its the service provide that wants you to keep your hands to yourselves, motorola was all In for unlocked boat loaders, but as soon as the DROID name gets branded to it, Verizon takes the pleasure to finger it! Just google to find out more, I can imagine the extents Moto has going to release this DEV version!

    https://www.facebook.com/motorolaeurope/posts/10150548890070499
    *Comment section*

  • George Marengo

    I went online and ordered a Developer Razr M on the 23rd of September, with the order saying the phone would ship the week of the 24th. The week of the 24th comes and goes, and the phone doesn’t ship. I get a call on October 1st and someone from Moto leaves a message apologizing for the delay, and flatly stating that my order will be shipped no later than October 4th. On October 5th I call Moto and ask why my phone hasn’t shipped yet. I was ASSURED that it would ship by the next day (a SATURDAY) so I just cancelled my order. No wonder Moto is losing market share.