If you own a
Pre, you like to tempt fate, and you don't faint at the mere thought of your phone melting into a nondescript heap of plastic and silicon, have we got some exciting news for you: some crazy dude with a death wish has somehow eked an honest gigahertz out of the Pre's OMAP3430 processor that normally plods along at 600MHz. Of course, this
isn't the first time the phone's been overclocked, but traditionally, those overclocks have topped out around 800MHz -- so if you need serious speed and don't mind nuking your battery at a record pace, this so-called "F105 Thunderchief" kernel project is one that you're going to want to keep an eye on. The project's owner says "do not install this if you like your phone," so... you know, proceed with extreme caution, especially considering that your
warranty's probably going to dry up as fast as your battery. Follow the break for the blood-curdling action on video.
posted June 28th 2010 4:57PM
I'm perfectly cool with my Pre-Plus with Verizon, and I hope HPalm will continue to support for next 5-years. I installed GNUpatch, uberkernel, and all other necessary patches so they can all run in sync. I'm perfectly happy with the processor performances, and probably it is running between 600Mhz and 700Mhz, and my Pre+ doesn't heat up much at all. I don't know why on earth one would need ever faster processors for a smartphone which basically has to be a phone first, and that is the primary reason people will be interested in buying them. A smartphone and a laptop are necessary things. A PDA, slate, or iPAD, are not necessities, those are supplementary gadgets. I do understand that people may want their PDAs, slates, or even laptops to run faster, but around 1.2Ghz speed is probably just about sufficient for a hand-held device. The most important thing for a hand-held device is not to drop any call and the upload.download speed. I use my home WiFi system almost all the time. My COMCAST cable modem/router downloads at 12Mbps, and uploads say about 50-60% of that rate, mind-blowing eh ? I don't think even 4G EVO can beat that. Anyhow, I think Pre-Plus is the best COMPACT smartphone ever designed. I hope HPalm understands that. And now HPalm is free to do whatever they wish. Let them release a slate device with upgraded webOS, and also I hope they are going to transform webOS to a MOBILE-COMPUTING OS, a virtual server based multi-tasking OS, servicing hardware and software, using tools like search-engines, web-crawlers, list-processors, office-tools like word-processors, spreadsheets, photo-editors, video-editors, information updates like calendar/contact/status updates etc., etc., and always multi-tasking operations at different nodes. This would be like building a service-garage equipped with garage-tools on the internet highway. Go HPalm,,,,
I completely agree with you. I love WebOS, its AMAZING but no one knows about it.
I wish the Pre and the EVO would make a baby and it came out with EVO haedware, pre software with an Android touch and apps
I purchased an EVO with my upgrade the day it came out and returned it a few days ago because I missed WebOS too much. I don't understand what all of the fuss is concerning Android - it's a sloppy operating system. Nothing runs correctly and it requires a restart almost every day (blah, blah - don't try to tell me it doesn't unless you can form coherent sentences). I had a Nexus One, hated stock Android, and hoped that Sense UI could make me enjoy it but it didn't. Widgets are cool but multitasking is handled very poorly in Android and the lack of a unified UI is laughable.
Vote me down all you want, but the fact remains that WebOS > iOS > Android.
More stuff is comin' guys. Stay tuned!