Samsung shows affection to CyanogenMod, gives its devs a free Galaxy S II

Let’s examine if we’re grokking this: Samsung isn’t just telling the dev community it’s ok to place custom ROMs on its flagship device, it’s actually encouraging the practice by handing out free phones? Atinm, the developer chargeable for prepping CyanogenMod at the Captivate and colourful, took to Twitter to praise the manufacturer for sending him a free Galaxy S II. From the appearance of it, Samsung sent the telephone to a select choice of devs intent on building an official release of CM7 for the GSII. Unlocking bootloaders has already become the recent fancy with manufacturers like HTC , Motorola , and Sony Ericsson jumping at the bandwagon, but that is the primary time we’ve heard of an organization shelling out free devices to the custom ROM community. Does this mean that, rather than enforcing TouchWiz with an iron fist, Samsung is calling at how this tradition could actually benefit consumers? We doubt this may be the case for the entire company’s future Android phones, but wouldn’t you like to live in a global where it was?

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