
By now most of us would be aware that the Pre (and Pre Plus for that matter) doesn’t take full utilitarian use of it’s CPU, but what’s a fan to do? If you’ve currently upgraded to Palm’s latest and greatest (WebOS 1.4), a couple of Palm loving hackers have released a kernel patch, bumping the meager 500MHz CPU to a trail blazing 800MHz. To quote Joshua Topolsky “the two phone magicians,” unixpsycho and caj2008 are no stranger to tapping into the Pre’s untamed CPU; bringing what was a similar patch to WebOS 1.3.5. Presently, phones using the tweak, haven’t experienced any major issues (crashes, freezing, major battery drain and exploding devices.) In surprise to the creators, the hack only has a somewhat marginal affect on battery life (an additional 2.4% loss) however, if you’re constantly looking for a power-point to charge your device, this may just be the ultimate destruction of its battery. With such raw power, comes great responsibility: With that we leave you with a final message, install this at your own risk!
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