Palm Responds to Pre Overclocking Hacks

Humberto Saabedra

Palm has issued an official statement regarding the overclocking hacks developed by the homebrew community for the Palm Pre after receiving questions from customers:

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.

The response given by Palm is expected, as it shouldn’t be expected that Palm repair a device that has been modified to run outside of its intended operating specifications. The statement also follows the recent release of another overclocking hack that allows clock speed adjustment on Pre devices running webOS 1.4.

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