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The Nokia N900 comes with quite fast 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, which is also found in some other products like the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre. If that’s not good enough for you and you’re willing to do some hacking, apparently you could make your Maemo baby joins the 1GHz race.
That’s exactly what Maemo forum member Lehto has managed to do. He was able to drive the N900′s core clock speed from a mild 700MHz boost to 950MHz. Scrap that, he said he’s had his N900 going even faster!
Top speed kernel was not released (unlike those that drive your N900 up to 950MHz) and even if it was I wouldn’t recommend trying it out. The faster N900 will certainly affect the battery life and maybe even the machine lifetime. And it’s not like the out-of-box N900 is a slow device.
Still, it’s good to know this is possible and that at some point — for instance when you buy a new phone and are free to play with the old one — you could take the risky route and make your (at that time) old N900 racing with the rest of the pack.
[Via: slashgear]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
