The Sprint Moto X has an unlockable bootloader. I told you previously when you were swearing up and down that you would never get another Motorola phone. That has been well known. AT&T and Verizon Moto Xs have the encrypted bootloader. Remember? You were swearing left and right that Motorola had not changed when it came to updates. Ready to admit you're wrong?
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I don't believe I was swearing that I would never get another Moto, I think I said that I have a great deal of distrust for them, and don't want to reward their perfidy by replacing my Photon with a new Moto. I still have a lot of distrust for them -- if I didn't, I wouldn't be wrestling with which phone to buy. The Moto X appears to be the ONLY current Android phone small enough for me to hold comfortably that both works for LTE in the US and also can be used internationally. And spec-wise, it is more than powerful enough for my needs. I'd just buy the thing if Motorola hadn't burned me.
But thank you for refreshing the information re an unlockable bootloader.
I don't know what it means to have an "encrypted" bootloader. But I guess I don't want to migrate to either Verizon or AT&T, so it doesn't really matter.
Anyhow, I am really bummed that I can't get the Samsung Mini, which looked perfect. Sprint doesn't list the ! mini among its international options, either. (I don't know if they carry it at all.) So I'm looking at the Nexus, the Moto X, and the full-sized S4. The Nexus and the S4 are both larger than I want -- enough larger for that to be a serious problem. But they aren't Motorola, and are or can be unlocked.