Overclocked Palm Pre joins the 1GHz brotherhood
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The brains behind the “F105 Thunderchief” project (they might as well have called it “Thunderchef”), have cooked the webOS kernel to unleash the above mentioned speeds, and they have also been kind enough to record a video of how the interface behaves at those speeds. So far, the biggest drawback to toasting your chip we can see is that the bump in raw power really seems to take a heavy toll on the battery quicker than you can say “I told you so”.
Palm Pre Specifications | Review
source: Engadget
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16 Comments
1. ILOVEIPHONE25 (unregistered) posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:47 0 0
my question why the hell didn't designers make this phone with a 1gz processor? I really wish I was a designer of phones...I know the engineers saw the crappy quality and still let it be produced!
5. oddmanout posted on 29 Jun 2010, 10:47 0 0
It would be sweet if they made it 1 ghz stock but it would be potentially problematic with that processor. A lot of phones are capable of being overclocked but when you over clock it, thats when the problems come in. Your more vulnerable to crashes, overheating, and damaging the phone. Overclocking pushes the phone to its limit. The pre was 600 mhz stock (which wasn't necessarily bad) and could be pushed to 1 ghz... just imagine what an evo overclocked would be like. Then again, who would need to overclock a phone already running at 1 ghz. how far can you push something thats already (basically) instantaneous and actually notice the difference. thats why im kind of skeptical about the 2 ghz processor motorolas talking about...
10. Cali_E posted on 29 Jun 2010, 16:04 0 0
the snapdragon can only be stably pushed about another 100mhz. you can overclock (or at least i have) a droid to 1.3ghz and it still be stable. it was just a fluke with the droids processor that gave it that ability. anyone overclocking a pre+ should not go over 800mhz, ive herad it operates like a beast at 800mhz anyays, there would be no point to push it further
16. mikeike (unregistered) posted on 30 Sep 2010, 00:48 0 0
Instead of trying to bad mouthing Palm Pre, even a guy like me can figure how to do it, and it works flowlessly mine is set so it goes into 500mhz when its screen is off and 1 ghz when the application is running. Its really fast, and so easy to do.
2. ilia1986 posted on 29 Jun 2010, 09:33 0 0
You know if Google would have bought Palm and integrated WebOS into Android - that would be one sick combination! Android apps + openness + widgets + multiple home screens - combined with WebOS gestures and multitasking (card stack) handling.
6. oddmanout posted on 29 Jun 2010, 11:04 0 0
i've been saying this too! but now that i think about it again after having my evo... idk if it would work to nicely. webOS has one static home screen so that you can pan the cards around and if you add android to that you'll be panning both the screens and cards which wouldnt work out well. and the launcher for webOS is basically the same for android (accept more iOS-ish) but webOS with widgets like android... that would be sickk. im sure if webOS and android ever did pair up that it would be modified to fit each other but hypothetically thinking the two are two different to combine them without any modification
4. mcmkone posted on 29 Jun 2010, 10:33 0 0
Wow, only wow... Kind of got me thinking... the iPhone 4 has a 1GHz Chip right, i'd love to see these two face off and by looking at it.. the Pre would Win... I just bought my iPhone 4 and now thinking of trading it in lol
8. *HOVA* posted on 29 Jun 2010, 12:25 0 0
At that much of an overclock it'll pry fry the phone. Companies know they can get more out of processors but it comes with a lot of sacrifices, hence they underclock them to get descent battery life etc.
12. droidman posted on 29 Jun 2010, 17:39 0 0
Do not trade your iPhone 4 for a palm pre I know because I've owned a palm pre their good when you first get them then in a couple weeks it will go bad on you,the iPhone is a much better phone a lot of people think I hate the iPhone that's not true,Ive said a lot of bad things about the iPhone but thats just to make the fanboys mad. Just some good advice.You still can get a droid x they'll have that thing run at 1.5 or 1.6 ghz guaranteed with no problems and if you don't like android stick with the iPhone.
7. fsjon posted on 29 Jun 2010, 12:22 0 0
My question is, why not make an underclock kernel so I can have at least 2 days of real life battery life??
14. SellPhones82 posted on 30 Jun 2010, 10:05 0 0
You can with Govnah...it allows you to underclock the processor by selecting one of the pre-set Mhz. You can also set a "screenstate" Mhz for when the screen is off which really helps on the battery life. Mine is running at 125Mhz with the screen off and 1.05 Ghz when the screen is on.
9. pocholo posted on 29 Jun 2010, 12:41 0 0
if they did this to a pre they coul do it to a G1 right ?
