We’ve been rather critical of Motorola in recent months over their insistance on using locked bootloaders and other root-unfriendly tactics but tonight that changes. While testing a pre-release version of Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread for the Atrix 4G the folks over at BriefMobile found that the bootloader is now unlocked, allowing custom kernels and ROMs!

We’ve heard Motorola claim many times that they were working on bringing unlocked bootloaders to future handsets as well as several currently available devices via update, and that it was ultimately carriers who gave the yay or nay for root-friendly provisions.

Let the fun begin starting this July…

Source: BriefMobile
Via: Phandroid