According to the HTC Facebook page, HTC owners will be getting updates in August to support unlocking for the global HTC Sensation, followed by the HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile and the HTC EVO 3D on Sprint.
It will not be an easy process, requires the downloading and installation of the Android SDK and authorizing a legal disclaimer.
Because of security concerns smartphones will continue to ship locked but will support user-initiated unlocking using a new web-based tool.
The web tool, which will launch this month requires that registration with an email account and a acceptance of legal disclaimers that unlocking may void all or parts of your warranty.
Then the user plugs in the HTC smartphone into a computer with the Android SDK loaded to retrieve a device identifier token is made, which users enter into the web tool to receive a unique unlock key via email. After entering the unlock key the smartphone will be unlocked.
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