Palm: don’t use overclocking patches

Palm has just – for the first time in the history of the company – stated something about these patches publicly:

We have had a number of questions about the recently released “overclocking” patches and what Palm’s position on them are.

Palm is working hard to improve the speed and performance of webOS, as shown in our recent 1.4 update. While we appreciate the effort the webOS community has put forth to try and help us along that path, the use of this application is neither endorsed nor recommended by Palm and will likely result in a voided warranty. Palm encourages webOS users to let Palm release official updates that provide safe, reliable, over-the-air features that improve their device in a number of areas, as we have in the past at a rate of approximately once per month.

Given that Palm never did this before, it IMHO is highly likely that the Pre has severe thermal issues, which would be exaggerated by raised CPU frequencies! This means that an extensive computing session could quickly lead to a toasted Pre.

Of course, they don’t have the nerves to say openly that the thermal envelope of the Pre doesnt allow overclocking – it’s hard to break them habits if you live under the Orange Orb…

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4. Hard cases could cause Pre overheating
5. AT&T to get 2 webOS devices in H1 2010