How come this wasn’t getting more attention?
Sad to see this hasn’t improved. I really wanted a zenphone 10, was my ideal set of hardware but when it released was around the time the unlock tool went away and they said month after month that “next month the new version would be out”. Sad since the phone doesn’t have the best update support to begin with so wanted something I could unlock.
What the actual fuck.
I think after all the bad press they got with the gamernexus warranty mess, it might be something to point them out to.
ASUS rubs their nipples while repeating “we’re sorry…” and changing absolutely nothing but people keep buying their shit anyway…so they never will.
This is borderline extortion, for a feature that should have been available at launch without any requests needed
That’s the worst part, it was offered at launch and it was very easy: simple APK install and the click of a button! But suddenly they decided to remove it without any prior warning, and now, after a year or two of promises of BL unlock coming back “in a few months”, they simply said fuck you
not even Google prevents you from unlocking the bootloader on their phones so why are these Manufacturers doing this? what’s their reasoning behind this ?
not even Google
Google are one of the best manufacturers for this, they have always supported and provided instructions for unlocking as far as I can remember
Probably because no one here cares about ASUS. It was only relevant because the Zenfone line was small. As soon as that returned to a normal (massive) form factor, any reason to buy an ASUS phone disappeared.
And they have a jack. And I think they had the phone with the single camera right? I don’t need a front one. That was a cool feature.
It isn’t just about one company, but precedent. If today Asus can get away with this, other will look and copy the behavior. Apple and Samsung started a lot of anti-consumer precedents and no one can sure Asus isn’t the next.
I was expecting something like $15 to deter script kiddies that are following outdated/misleading/incomplete YouTube flashing tutorials and will end with a brick but $200???
It’s a giant “FUCK YOU” to the paying customer. If it was me, I’d flip the phone on eBay and never ever buy anything from Asus anymore
Yeah, $200 is like the price of a fully functioning entry level samsung A15/16 series smartphone which would get 5-6 years of updates! This is ridiculous. Being a niche brand and pulling these stunts is stupid.
