Verizon’s Google Pixel Will Have A Locked Bootloader
For those Verizon customers who are looking to pick up the one of the new Google Pixel phones, be aware that the bootloader will be locked to the carrier. To this point, Google has kept their Nexus devices with an unlocked bootloader. For those who aren’t familiar with what a bootloader is exactly, it is the first thing that runs when you power up an Android phone. It is the boot sequence of the device and the loading of the Operating System. Carriers generally like these locked because the do not want someone loading a custom ROM on the device to bypass their software or other settings.