The Google Nexus S is not exactly a mobile phone that is characterized by being not very powerful. Rather the complete opposite. It is equipped with the chip Hummingbird of one GHz, which to date supposed to be talking about one of the most powerful processors on the market for smart phones. However, is it not interesting to make the most of the options of our tactile mobile to guarantee us the maximum possible power?
Faced with this question, the guys at XDA Developers have done their thing again, and a series of software modifications have been cooked up in the Google Nexus S so that the one that today is the official Google mobile goes full blast. In total, they have managed to get the Google Nexus S to run stably at 1.2 GHz, although they achieve top speeds of 1.3 GHz.
To achieve this 20 percent increase in the performance of the Google Nexus S, those responsible for the feat have used a technique that manages to do what specialists call overclocking . This is nothing more than forcing the maximum performance of the processor to operate above the limits imposed by the manufacturer, although within the range that its structure allows without damaging the device.
The good thing about this operation, of course, is that we get the mobile (the Google Nexus S, in this case) to fight them, at a great speed that, knowing that the Google Nexus S is already fast. (thanks to the Ext4 file system), it will allow you to navigate through the different mobile options with great reliability.
In contrast, the limits that the manufacturer imposes on the speed of the processor have a reason for being. That the Hummingbird that installs the Google Nexus S goes to a GHz when it is possible to make it operate faster is because that is the optimal speed for the most efficient power consumption. Therefore, forcing the processor implies that the autonomy of the device will be exhausted in less time.
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