It’s a never-ending stream of outrageous shenanigans for Android’s enterprising home brew community, and today they’ve added another feather to their cap: A 1.1GHz Motorola Droid.
The overclocking feat used a homebrew application that requires a rooted Droid and some new firmware loaded via a few simple instructions. The dev and other testers at AllDroid noted, however, that performance was erratic and suggested that users are better served over the long haul by the 800MHz frequency coded into evilboot8.img.
With a 550MHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, the Droid is quite snappy for the vast majority of its tasks, but scrolling performance on image-laden sites can be faintly choppy. It has been noted that a marginally faster CPU would put those concerns to rest, so we can only imagine a Droid that enjoyed a fleeting moment as the fastest smartphone on earth (the Nexus One is 1GHz) simply laughed in the face of heavy workloads.
