Usually when discussions of overclocking enter the room, we’re talking about desktop computers being water-cooled and pumped up as high-end gaming rigs. That’s not the case today. Instead, we take a rather ho-hum Nokia and effectively double the clock speed on its processor.

An enthusiast has set out to overclock every Nokia Symbian device and the Nokia 5230, which is sold as the Nokia Nuron via T-Mobile, was the first testing ground. Straight out of the box, the smartphone runs at 433MHz. Running some custom ROMs, this was bumped up to 800MHz.

That’s no small feat, effectively bringing the performance of this phone (almost) into the Snapdragon and Hummingbird range. The rest of the components aren’t up to spec, but it’s crazy that he’s able to move the processor up that much.

Will the average person be at all interested in overclocking their cell phone? Probably not. It could make for a very unstable experience and you can pretty much say goodbye to your battery life. Even so, it’s quite the interesting exercise in what is possible. So, when will someone overclock a Snapdragon-powered smartphone to 2GHz?

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Plenty of release dates have been leaked on T-Mobile USA about new products that are set to be released over the next few months of 2010.   The release that is expected on March 10th is the Motorola Cliq XT, which previous reports have referred to as the Zeppelin.  This model will be an affordable 1.5 Android OS based smartphone featuring MotoBlur’s suite of social networking software.  The touchscreen has a 3.2-inch HVGA (320×240 pixels).

The following week, on the 17th, they are set to bring us the Nokia Nuron.  According to rumors the Nuron will be a Symbian S60 5th Edition version of the Nokia 5230.  Nuron users will get access to Nokia’s Ovi suite of online services, Nokia’s standard suite of productivity applications and its focus will be entertainment.  As with the Motorola Cliq XT the Nuron will also be a tablet style, with a 3.2-inch, 640×360 pixel touchscreen and slide-out keyboard.

Then finally on the 24th we get our hands on the much anticipated HTC HD2 Windows Mobile Entertainment Device.  According to the document; all the info that we already know about T-Mobiles HTC HD2 are true. There is a 1GHz processor, a 16 GB microSD memory card, a 4.3” WVGA display with multi-touch support, a 5MPx camera and will be running Windows Mobile 6.5.

All three support the T-Mobile 3G mobile broadband network, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi (the Nuron doesn’t have Wi-Fi).  Unfortunately no pricetag’s were mentioned for any of the devices.

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