So HTC has a web tool to unlock your boot loader. Very smart of them, and kind as well. Until you think about it a little. Here's a scenario:
You buy an evo 3d (or whatever the new hotness is) and you pull it out, go to the site and register your UNLOCKED phone, thus nulifying any warranties you ever had. Say you had a faulty CPU from the get-go.. bad solsering, loose wires.. whatever. You are now essentially screwed, whether you ran a custom ROM or you just wanted to feel 'free'. You cannot take it back to Sprint/tmo/Verizon.. becauase now the phone is registered out of the warranty...
I had an og EVO that had this exact situation... Had I registered I would have been up a creek..
Listen, there is root and s-off methods for every phone pratically, some take more work than others.. the Evo line (and new HTC phones) have been given great tools like revolution that make HTC not worth it, when I can go s-on whenever I feel like it..
Just my thoughts
You buy an evo 3d (or whatever the new hotness is) and you pull it out, go to the site and register your UNLOCKED phone, thus nulifying any warranties you ever had. Say you had a faulty CPU from the get-go.. bad solsering, loose wires.. whatever. You are now essentially screwed, whether you ran a custom ROM or you just wanted to feel 'free'. You cannot take it back to Sprint/tmo/Verizon.. becauase now the phone is registered out of the warranty...
I had an og EVO that had this exact situation... Had I registered I would have been up a creek..
Listen, there is root and s-off methods for every phone pratically, some take more work than others.. the Evo line (and new HTC phones) have been given great tools like revolution that make HTC not worth it, when I can go s-on whenever I feel like it..
Just my thoughts