wraggster
October 3rd, 2011, 19:44
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/09/pile-of-se-phones-freexperia.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/01/sony-ericsson-lends-hand-to-freexperia-devs-shows-love-for-cyan/)
Turns out, Sony Ericsson is really coming around to the understanding that Android phones are not a one-size-fits-all proposition. After taking notice of the FreeXperia team's tireless efforts to bringCyanogenMod 7.1 (http://www.engadget.com/tag/cyanogenmod) to certain SE devices, the company is now "pulling a Samsung (http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/08/samsung-shows-affection-to-cyanogenmod-gives-its-devs-a-free-ga/)" by lending its support to the cause. The firm has provided the group with approximately 20 phones, along with debugged and rebuilt camera library binaries to ensure a proper user experience. Not stopping there, Sony Ericsson hopes to make these bits available to all developers under a special EULA in the near future. Of course, the company continues to remind its users that it doesn't specifically condone unlocking the bootloader -- which still results in a void warranty -- even though it's willing to help you (http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/13/sony-ericssons-android-bootloader-unlocking-site-goes-live-mod/) do just that.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/02/sony-ericsson-lends-hand-to-freexperia-devs-shows-love-for-cyan/
Turns out, Sony Ericsson is really coming around to the understanding that Android phones are not a one-size-fits-all proposition. After taking notice of the FreeXperia team's tireless efforts to bringCyanogenMod 7.1 (http://www.engadget.com/tag/cyanogenmod) to certain SE devices, the company is now "pulling a Samsung (http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/08/samsung-shows-affection-to-cyanogenmod-gives-its-devs-a-free-ga/)" by lending its support to the cause. The firm has provided the group with approximately 20 phones, along with debugged and rebuilt camera library binaries to ensure a proper user experience. Not stopping there, Sony Ericsson hopes to make these bits available to all developers under a special EULA in the near future. Of course, the company continues to remind its users that it doesn't specifically condone unlocking the bootloader -- which still results in a void warranty -- even though it's willing to help you (http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/13/sony-ericssons-android-bootloader-unlocking-site-goes-live-mod/) do just that.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/02/sony-ericsson-lends-hand-to-freexperia-devs-shows-love-for-cyan/