Update from Asus

The service team reply misunderstood the situation. Unlock tool is unavailable at this moment but we are allowing the possibility to unlock, please stay tuned.

**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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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 won’t be able to root their phones.
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5 points

Yeah no reasons besides only tiny stuff like being only flagship under 6", better speakers than samsung, better cooling and less throttling than samsung, headphone jack, near stock android. More like there are no compelling reasons to root anymore, enjoy your 1k samsung throttling tho

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4 points

2 years of updates means you’ll quickly end up with a phone that’s waiting to be hacked

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1 point

They offer 4 years of security updates, what are you on about? It’s even better than sony

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2 points

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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