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I successfully rooted my unlocked S7 based on a series of xda posts. I don't know exactly the rules for outside links are, so I'll just explain that I flashed an engineering boot image than ran a fairly simple cli command. I than tried to flash a room and bootlooped. Odin'd new firmware, good to...

For the past few months if you wanted to get your hands on the latest Moto X series phone you had to sign up through Project Fi or either grab one of the Moto X4 Amazon exclusive units which came loaded with lockscreen ads. Amazon no longer has the exclusive and you can now pick up a carrier...

The Essential phone is finally starting to slowly ship to those who pre-ordered the device. If you never were able to get in on the pre-order, but are still interested in this phone you will be happy to know that you can now buy the phone from Best Buy. The phone will be sold unlocked and can be...

Months after Samsung updated all other variants of the Galaxy S7 Edge we are finally seeing the Nougat update roll out to unlocked devices state side. It is kind of unfortunate that Samsung took so long to get the unlocked version updated. This has been a huge pain point for many users of the...

Carrier pre-orders are beginning to arrive on door steps. In fact if you ordered your Galaxy S8 or S8+ from Verizon or T-Mobile you more than likely already have your phone. If you were waiting on the unlocked version to become available you can pre-order that now. The unlocked version won't...

If you are going to have to pay full retail price for a cell phone you might as well buy it unlocked if the option is available. According to a Best Buy listing they plan to offer unlocked variants of the phone beginning May 9th. The phone will certainly work on GSM carriers, but I have not read...

There is one thing I really hate in life and that is being forced to buy phones from Verizon. For years some phone manufactures have made phones CDMA or GSM specific in the US. Many of these phones were also locked to the carrier and the only way to get a phone that worked on your carrier at...

There was once a time when Motorola was one of the quickest OEMs to release updates. This was during the time they were controlled by Google which could explain the speedy releases. Now they are owned by Lenovo and updates are much slower. The Verizon exclusive Moto Z Droid and Z Droid Force had...

It is always nice to see a company take risks to bring something new and revolutionary to consumers. Unfortunately these risks often don't go as planned. This is exactly what happened to LG with the G5. Modularity seemed to be a feature that consumers were interested in as Google seemingly moved...

Earlier today I got a pretty exciting email from Lenovo. The email announced the pre-order of the unlocked version of the Moto Z. You can now use the device on GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. The Moto Z series has suffered from a lack of availability. The phone was released as a Verizon...

The OnePlus 3 was released today with much fan fare. In fact about 3 hours of my twitter feed were dominated with OnePlus 3 news. They hype for this device is real. Finally we have an inexpensive device full of expensive flagship features and specs! The phone is only missing one major thing...

In unfortunate news today Lenovo has said that the Unlocked version of the Moto Z slated to release in the fall will only be supported on GSM networks. That is kind of a big blow. Motorola had been knocking it out of the park when it comes to developer friendliness. The Moto X Pure was released...

One of the best phones of last year is currently on Fire Sale through Amazon! The Moto X Pure was the next best thing to the Nexus 6P! For me the best part of this phone is the fact that it comes from the factory sim unlocked and you can easily unlock the bootloader and root and rom it! The...

Just after the release of the HTC 10 we found out that the unlocked version of the device that was being sold through HTC's website supported bands for Verizon. We also found out that Verizon decided to blacklist those devices in favor of their own carrier branded devices. I had a feeling that...

When the official specs were added to the pre-order page on HTC.com for the Unlocked version of the HTC 10 there was a bit of excitement that the phone features all the bands needed for a phone to fully work on Verizon's network. Knowing how Verizon likes to do business I figured this was too...

One thing that Samsung did wrong in my opinion is selling carrier locked phones in the US. I prefer a phone that supports all carrier bands sold directly to the consumer by the manufacturer. Huawei and Motorola are the best examples of this with the Nexus 6P and Moto X Pure. Both of these phones...

Hi; I have a droid turbo1, bought from the USA with Verizon. Actually the phone is unlocked with another carrier; do you think I'll get the upgrade to Marshmallow? Please tell me. Thank you

The HTC One A9 seems to have been quite the flop. It is HTC's mid tier offering for late 2015. It looks eerily similar to the iPhone 6s, however HTC will swear to you that Apple stole design ques from them when designing the iPhone 6. That is neither here nor there. One great thing about the A9...

If you want to Rom or root your device the best phone for you is a phone that is easily bootloader unlockable. Once you have your bootloader unlocked you can install a custom recovery which allows you to flash supersu.zip to root. You can also flash roms and make complete nandroid backups with a...

If you are purchasing the Moto X Pure chances are you are doing so because you want to be able to easily modify your device. Motorola makes it super easy to unlock your bootloader, but in doing so you have to agree to void your warranty, and the boot image displays a warning stating that the...