TL;DR

  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.
  • As per the company’s technical support team, Zenfone 10 and Zenfone 9 users
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Well it’s better but it’s still not enough imo.

People shouldn’t be left behind on security just because they don’t have the latest phone, 4 years isn’t long at all.

Now phones are powerful enough to last years, and could last even longer with replaceable batteries. This artificial limitation is anti-customer.

So yeah at least there should be an way to root and install custom ROMs, they may not want to support phones longer officially but they shouldn’t limit the user if they want to do it themselves.

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DAE 10 years of support for 800€ ?

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They don’t have to support it 10 years, but they shouldn’t prevent people to keep their phones updated themselves with custom ROMs.

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Ah the peak of security, third party custom roms. Accept your hobby isnt popular and move on, grown ups like their banking apps working

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