If you’ve ever owned an HTC Android smartphone, you’ll know that HTC is pretty tight-fisted when it comes to internal storage, especially when compared with similarly specced phones from manufacturers such as Motorola and Samsung. What gives?
HTC finally gets it. The Taiwanese company will no longer lock the bootloaders on its Android devices. Rooting and flashing will be available to all. This news comes straight from CEO Peter Chou who made the following statement,
The Motorola Atrix isn’t launching officially until June, but I’ve been playing with one for a week or so now, and I’ve just managed to root it after a frustrating search through old and half-arsed bits of information floating about the internet. Here’s the complete step-by-step guide on how to do it.
Want to read Kindle ebooks on a colour screen? One man rooted his NookColor (which runs Android), and loaded on the Kindle app. You can follow the instructions and do it too, if you dare. [BlogKindle via CrunchGear]
We’ve featured one way to overclock your Android phone, but if you’re the lucky owner of a newer Motorola device, you can take all the effort out of overclocking with DX/D2 Overclocker.
Seriously, that’s got to hurt. Two forum-posters calling themselves Team DeFuse are claiming they successfully managed to overclock both the Droid 2 and Droid X, taking them from a decent 1GHz to spectacular 2GHz. We’d be concerned for their safety if we hadn’t seen they survived the task at least long enough to upload video proof of it. [Droid-Life via BGR]
