14 DAY TRIAL // Motorola XOOM, the first tablet PC to arrive on the market with Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system on board, has just got its processor overclocked to up to 1.5 GHz. The Android device was made available for purchase in the United States on February 24th on the airwaves of wireless carrier Verizon, which sells it for $599.99 upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement.
The tablet PC comes with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 application processor inside, which packs two cores, each clocked in at 1GHz.
However, it appears that the processor can run at faster speeds, and that it is quite stable even when overclocked, some of the latest reports around the Internet show.
The Motorola XOOM was overclocked using coolbho3000′s tools, which brought the processor up to 1.2Ghz stable, and then to 1.5 GHz.
As Phandroid notes, given the fact that he is the developer of SetCPU, it did not come as a surprise that he managed to offer the software to overclock the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor.
Even so, the fact that he managed to bring the CPU inside Motorola XOOM to a faster speed and that everything went well comes as good news for enthusiasts.
One thing that should be noted here is that users should not try to overclock the processor inside their devices unless they are familiar with the process.
Moreover, since the process involves the rooting and the unlocking of the device, it would void warranty, one more reason to stay out of it.
For those who would still like to walk down this road, the full instructions are available on this thread over at XDA-Developers (via Droid-life).
Make sure you perform each step as described there, and keep in mind that you will be doing this at your own risk. You can learn more about the overclocked Motorola XOOM in the video embedded below.