Overclocking?

[Guest jambo]

On many arm-based platforms; extreme overclocking has/ is sucessful. In particular, I am thinking of the GP32 (an handheld console with a default clock-speed of 66mhz) which will SAFELY overclock to 133mhz.

Is there similar overclocking potential for smartphones? Are there any Pocket-PC overclocking apps which will likely get a port?

Cheers.

[Guest MECX]

i think this was tried before and it was found that the clock speed was locked (in hardware). This would likly KILL the battery life even more :)

[Guest jambo]

If anyone has a definative answer as to whether the CPU is locked at a defined clock-speed, i'd like it :)

MECX: Yes it probably would kill the battery. But there is also the possibility of under-clocking for less CPU-intensive applications. I've seem this done on Palm PDA's.

[Guest wirefree90]

It is my understanding that the system clock is also used to generate the frequencies for the GSM part of the handset..

Change the external clock and it'll no longer transmit 900/1800Mhz.

Even if this isn't the case ( a different clock is used to derive the GSM clock) changing the clock on the baseband layer will have a major impact on the RF.

[Guest spacemonkey]

I've heard that overclocking on the HTC phones makes them unstable so basically a no-no.

Devices like the GP32 and palm are easily overclocked but this is because the clock speed by default is intentionally set much lower than it's maximum in order to get more battery life. The SPV/E100/E200/Whatever other names it has are by default clocked as fast as they can go.

[Guest jambo]

I've got a MPx200, and I've heard that it's capable of more than 130-odd Mhz.

But anyway... I guess I'm asking for too much.

Cheers for your input guys :)