Acer Liquid's Snapdragon processor to be clocked at just 768MHz?

Ugh. Just weeks after we figured that Acer's first Android-based handset would indeed ship with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a new slide over at an international Liquid presentation is suggesting otherwise. As you can clearly see above, it looks as if the Qualcomm-sourced CPU will be underclocked to just 768MHz, which makes little to no sense on the surface. Granted, most average consumers couldn't care less about the CPU in their next smartphone, but it seems reasonable to think that the Liquid will lag behind its 1GHz contemporaries when used side-by-side. Who knows though -- maybe this is just the thing necessary to squeeze a full week of battery life out of this thing. Or not.

[Via MobileTechWorld, thanks Gully and Jose]

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2009 11:30AM]

please stop obsessing over clock rates.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2009 11:44AM]

I agree

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2009 12:19PM]

actually, don't most snapdragon implementations thus far use an underclocked processor?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2009 12:34PM]

Prolly costs Acer less enabling them to sell it for less, but it ain't earning 'em geek-cred, especially on top of going with 'droid Donut vs Eclair.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2009 12:36PM]

This article is silly. Almost all of them are underclocked. This is the norm, not the exception.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2009 1:00PM]

It's not always about clock speed, the Cortex A8 architecture alone will help this phone run circles around any other Android phone (with the exception of the Droid of course).