Motorola has a tool online that allows users to the security of the bootloader of Android devices can pick up. This makes it easier to have custom roms to install. There are only a few devices supported.
The bootloader unlocker is according to Motorola suitable for the Razr smartphone and the wi-fi version of the Xoom tablet. For U.s. users is the support for the Xoom that Verizon is sold and the Photon Q is present. It is very likely that in the future more Android devices on the list.
The Motorola-tool is similar to the unlocker that HTC on its website. Through the site can be a unlock key can be obtained that the security of the boot loader is removed. Thus, users however, their warranty is lost. The ontgrendelprocedure also ensures that all data on the device is removed.
Unlocking the boot loader it easier for people to create custom roms to install. That was a lot of Motorola devices because of the strict security is impossible. The manufacturer has a lot of criticism about, what the reason seems to be for the online of the tool. It may also have something to do with the acquisition of Motorola by Google: the latter makes it his own Nexus devices are often not very difficult to remove protection. Previously started Motorola already with the sale of its Razr smartphone, without secure boot loader.