According to well known Galaxy S developer supercurio via a s pecial source this could be likely. This means despite the controversy that surrounds Samsung, the future devices offered could be even more developer friendly. As mentioned in the tweet above the only thing that would prohibit Samsung from offering an open bootloader would be a request from google themselves, which isn’t likely to happen. Although with the recent Honeycomb lockdown who knows. In regards to this supercurio’s source also said:
Tablets projects are still young, I don’t know about the bootloader plans for those devices.
More or less confirming that stating what was mentioned above, stating that Google’s future plans are hazy at best. From past experience and the recent release of the XOOM, which has an unlocked bootloader, it’s unlikely that anything would change. ThijsKoot over at AndroidGuys asked supercurio about the reliability of this source in which he got this reply:
@ThijsKoot I am as confident as I can be without testing it by myself. I cannot tell otherwise for me this kind source have always been true.
At the moment these are just rumors and should not be taken as fact. However, with Samsung’s recent delivery of source codes for the unreleased Droid Charge and the long anticipated Fascinate update, this could further mark a change in the behavior everyone has associated with them. Who do you think?
Source: AndroidGuys via @supercurio [1] [2] [3]
