There’s not a tablet out there these days that doesn’t have a healthy following of developers willing to tinker with their purchases, and this often results in custom kernels that often offer a better than stock experience as well as adding the ability to boost speed. We’ve seen custom UIs and speed boosts on the NOOK Color, Eee Pad Transformer, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and various other Nvidia Tegra 2 tablets, to count a few. The Qualcomm Snapdragon powered HP TouchPad Wi-Fi now joins the list with UberKernel, a custom kernel that boosts speed up to 1.5GHz, from the standard 1.2GHz.
That’s the same speed the upcoming Touchpad 4G will run at (due in August) and apparently, the same chip will be used in that, just overclocked, which is the exact same deal here so stability shouldn’t be an issue. This kernel actually borrows the overclocking code from an earlier kernel but it’s the first to include a fail-safe feature should overclocking fail (according to comments at the source).
If you’ve got an evening or two free then that’ll be just enough to figure out how to install whatever’s needed through Preware Homebrew Documentation and the WebOS Internals Wiki.
Source: Pre-Central
