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Live from the HP Think Beyond Event: The HP Veer!

By: , 2/9/2011 1:37 pm | 19 comments

HP Veer: The smallest smartphone manufactured to date

HP is betting strongly that in a sea of slab smartphones, there is still widespread appeal for a pocketable smartphone. They made a strong case for that with the Veer. Sporting a glass 2.6” screen, the Veer is the smallest full-featured smartphone ever manufactured. Don’t let its diminutive looks fool you, though: this thing can move. From what we gather, this smartphone is many cuts above the webOS hardware it’s leaving behind: soft touch plastic materials abound, and it feels really solid in the hand. Unlike the now defunct (and “refunct”) Microsoft Kin One, we expect this phone do very well. You can quote us on that.

Veer Specs:

  • Portrait slider
  • HSDPA 7.2/HSUPA 5.76
    Quad-band GSM/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900
    GSM/GPRS/EDGE (obviously not coming to Sprint or Verizon)
  • Display: 2.6-inch multitouch screen with a vibrant 18-bit color, 320×400 resolution
  • Camera: 5-megapixel camera with extended depth of field, geotagging, and video capture
  • Audio: Speakerphone; dual-mic for noise cancellation for quieter calls
  • Sensors: Accelerometer, ambient light, and proximity
  • Supported media formats: Audio formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV
    Video formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264
  • Wireless connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n with WPA, WPA2, WEP, 802.1X authentication; Bluetooth® wireless technology 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support; Wi-Fi router functionality for up to five devices using HP mobile hotspot.
  • Storage: 8GB (~6.5GB available)
    USB mass storage support
  • Battery: 910 mAh (non-removable); up to 5.0 hours of talk time or 300 hours of standby time.
  • Connector: Charger/magnetic connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
  • Processor: Qualcomm MSM7230, 800Mhz
  • Width: 54.5mm (2.15 inches)
    Height: 84.0mm (3.31 inches)
    Thickness: 15.1mm (0.59 inches)
  • Weight: 103 grams (3.63 ounces)
  • HP webOS 2.2

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  • HRTF44th

    HP your making us lasting believers happy. Go HP move over Apple.

  • Tony

    That’s is stupid!! We want bigger!! Now we will have to zoom in to read anything. 800 ghz?? Really? when there are crap loads of new phones with 1 ghz. Comogn out That’s one strike.

    • Max Tanner

      Hmm, I don’t agree Tony. I don’t want a bigger phone. I don’t want to try to shove a brick in my pocket.

      • Tony

        Look at the hottest selling phones, iphone, droid x, evo and epic…all large phones. You will find urself zooming in to look at pics, and reading the internet. Just saying

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gavin-Coles/524862901 Gavin Coles

          And Nokia sells millions of basic function low speed phones every day. Horses for courses just because you want a brick others want small and dainty, my seventy one year old mother for one.

    • Max Tanner

      Hmm, I don’t agree Tony. I don’t want a bigger phone. I don’t want to try to shove a brick in my pocket.

    • Al

      Everyone I know wants BIGGER only children can get anything done on a screen this small.

      Big is why people have flocked to the Andriod phones I’m droves don’t you people get that ?

      Andriod as an OS is middle of the road at best it’s the large sexy screens and high power hardware that have driven Android PERIOD……

  • http://www.twitter.com/abalistar Abalistar

    Let’s just hope they don’t screw it up with pricing. This thing could be amazing for under $100 on contract, and would do some serious damage if marketed at the younger crowd.

  • Tony

    Ok I am looking online and I love the pre 3. Video calling?? Love it..homerun

  • Tony

    Ok I am looking online and I love the pre 3. Video calling?? Love it..homerun

  • Tony

    Ok will webos create more apps and catch up with android? That’s a big key too.

    • Anonymous

      More doesn’t mean better. With thousands of apps I look at the catalog and see “don’t need it” or “not gonna pay for it”. So I don’t see how the situation would be any better with 1,000x as many apps. What matters is the business partnerships: where’s the Netflix player?

    • Anonymous

      More doesn’t mean better. With thousands of apps I look at the catalog and see “don’t need it” or “not gonna pay for it”. So I don’t see how the situation would be any better with 1,000x as many apps. What matters is the business partnerships: where’s the Netflix player?

    • Anonymous

      More doesn’t mean better. With thousands of apps I look at the catalog and see “don’t need it” or “not gonna pay for it”. So I don’t see how the situation would be any better with 1,000x as many apps. What matters is the business partnerships: where’s the Netflix player?

  • Tony

    Ok will webos create more apps and catch up with android? That’s a big key too.

  • Vanngoh

    Small phone for those who’ll buy touchPad. The latter for surfing n veer for phone functioning. How cool will that be!

  • Raun

    I’ve bashed in every post today, but this is a great idea and looks like a great phone. Still, gsm means AT&T, and they already have a great phone with great battery life. It’s an iphone. Today was a great day for webos users who have no idea what they are missing. For the original loyalists on sprint, it feels like a punch in the gut.

  • Raun

    I’ve bashed in every post today, but this is a great idea and looks like a great phone. Still, gsm means AT&T, and they already have a great phone with great battery life. It’s an iphone. Today was a great day for webos users who have no idea what they are missing. For the original loyalists on sprint, it feels like a punch in the gut.

  • MACraig85

    I love it! And people need to quick hating. It’s the perfect first smartphone for a teenager or someone wanting something more compact like me. everything in this world isnt made equal. im sure all those people complaining about its size or power is lacking somewhere and people are telling u how to be better. u want bigger and better then get the pre3.