G1 and MyTouch 3G pushed to 780MHz and 1GHz. Nuclear explosion soon thereafter…

The Motorola DROID may be stealing a majority of the rooted Android articles with things such as 2.1 goodies ported over or 1GHz overclocking, but it’s hardly the only kid at the playground. The G1 and MyTouch 3G may be older, slower, and generally less desirable when compared to the likes of the DROID and Nexus One, but those aging devices still have some kick left in them.

Thanks to Eugene373 over at xda-forums, the MT3G (read: MyTouch 3G/HTC Magic) and G1 have been overclocked just like their bigger, hairier chested brother, to the tune of 780MHz. When pushed further, those old bucket of bolts even managed pinging the 1GHz bell.

The DROID at 1GHz is ominous enough, running at almost 2x the rated clock speed. But that ARM A8 in the DROID is a newer, more power efficient chip. The processor in both the MyTouch 3G and G1 is an older, less power efficient ARM A11. Pushing that to 1GHz is just begging for trouble, and at the very least, melted skin.

Still, the geek in me yearns to try it out. If only I had some older Android hardware to try it on… Thats where you come in. If you don’t mind voiding your warranty and risking the life of your precious Android beauty, overclock that thing and report back to us with the results.

• Overclocking the G1 and MyTouch 3G — xda-forums

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ARM’s announces their Cortex A5 multi-core mobile processor

Current smartphones may suffer from laggy interfaces and stuttering multimedia performance because of weak internal hardware. Fret no more, put away those tissues and slap a smile on that pretty little mouth of yours as such experiences will soon be a thing of the past. The savior? ARM’s new Cortex A5 multi-core processor should certainly take care of all current slowness and then some. Labeled by ARM as “the smallest, lowest power ARM multicore processor capable of delivering the Internet to the widest possible range of devices” means this new processor will have some big shoes to fill and reputations to keep up. Of interest to mobile device junkies, the new A5 processor will be twice as energy efficient as older A9 and A11 chips giving future phones longer run times between outlet tetherings as well as leading to overall smaller devices thanks to a smaller physical footprint. The real kicker is the delivery date which ARM simply states as “this quarter”. Hell yeah! We can’t forget the 1GHz beast also known as Snapdragon. The current hotness for sure. Though I can assure you that once the ARM Cortex A5 multi-core struts it’s stuff, we’re all going to ask: “Snapdragon what?”

In case you were wondering, the chip pictured is not the A5.
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