Phil Stratton's Brain: They Weren’t Kidding When They Named it Xoom!

Well, on the TV show "Dinosaurs", Mr. Lizard always had problems keeping assistants, and was known to regularly say "I think we're going to need another Timmy!". Well that applies to smart phone benchmarks now. Mr. Lizard seems to have gotten his claws on a Motorola Xoom, and totally blew away all the benchmarks by 2 times! If benchmarks are named Timmy, we're going to need another one!

They Weren’t Kidding When They Named it Xoom!: "

Image Credit: XDA Developers Forum

Let the image above sink in some. If you don't yet own a Xoom (like me), then you can begin to be envious of the sheer power that owners of the latest Android device have in their grubby little hands. The folks over at Boy Genius Report found the above screenshot and the news that a dev in the community has successfully overclocked the Xoom to 1.5 GHz. Which, as you can see, blows away the current smartphone benchmarks we have right now.

A quote from the article:

XDA forum member coolbho300 has managed to tweak the XOOM’s kernel to get both Cortex-A9 cores running at a benchmark-shredding 1.5GHz. ”I have successfully brought the Tegra 2 in the XOOM to 1.5GHz,” writes coolbho300 in a forum post. “A few kernel modifications make the dual core chip in the XOOM even more powerful than the recently announced Tegra 2 3D. 1.5GHz through two Cortex A9 cores is truly a force to be reckoned with.'

I can feel the wind as the current Xoom owners are herding over to the XDA Forums to try the process out, just one note of caution as you do, be careful with your new toy!

They Weren’t Kidding When They Named it Xoom! originally appeared on AndroidGuys.