yeah thats cool, huawei, very impressive.
but for me locked bootloader = useless.
If you cant run a degoogled and privacy focused OS on it, it dosent exist.
Good luck on such a niche product
i thought huaweis could be unlocked? has that changed?
You’re almost definitely thinking of xiaomi, which almost always sell as unlockable carrier independent models.
When the P30 came out, you could unlock the bootloader for 5€. That offer to unlock it was deleted not a year after it came out. And even if you could still unlock it, if I have to go to an external website to do it, let alone PAY FOR THE THING I BOUGHT AND PAID FOR, that thing is going into the trash.
Eh good luck selling it with a locked bootloader, lots of bloatware preinstalled, without Google apps AND an update planned for next month that will remove completely the possibility of running any android app
im sure some other companies that are allowed to use android will soon make devices like this to reach the global market. the device looks too attractive and convenient to remain a small niche.
“launches outside of china” doesn’t mean it will come to EU or US:
Huawei UK public relations specialist Elliot Mulley-Goodbarne did confirm to The Verge that it’s “not coming to the UK or US for the time being.
