HP Veer
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| Developer | Hewlett-Packard |
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| Type | Mobile Phone |
| Release date | May 15, 2011 |
| Introductory price | $99.99 |
| Operating system | HP webOS 2.1.2 |
| CPU | Scorpion 800 MHz |
| Memory | 512 MB Mobile DDR |
| Storage | 8 GB (~6.5 GB available to users) |
| Display | TFT 320x400 resolution (18-bit color) 66 mm (2.6 in) diagonally |
| Graphics | Adreno 205 GPU |
| Sound | Speakerphone dual-microphone for noise cancellation |
| Input | Capacitive touchscreen (multitouch) slide-out keyboard accelerometer ambient light proximity sensor |
| Camera | 5 MP camera with extended depth of field and video capture |
| Connectivity |
GSM 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS 900/1900/2100 or 850/1900/2100 WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR USB 2.0 A-GPS (Within wireless coverage area only) |
| Power | 910 mAh (non-removable); up to 5.0 hours of talk time or 300 hours of standby time. |
| Dimensions | width: 54.5 mm (2.15 in) height: 84.0 mm (3.31 in) thickness: 15.1 mm (0.59 in) |
| Weight | 103 g |
| Predecessor | Palm Pixi Plus |
| Related articles | HP Pre 3 |
| Website | [1] |
The Veer is a smartphone announced by HP on February 9, 2011. The device uses HP webOS, is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and has a 2.6-inch screen. The smartphone is notable for its credit card-sized dimensions (and a depth that is comparable to the size of a deck of cards). The device is seen as the successor in the Palm line-up to the Pixi and earlier Centro models.
The HP Veer was announced on February 9, 2011, along with the HP Pre 3 and the HP TouchPad. The Veer was released in the US on May 15, 2011 on the AT&T network, and was marketed as the HP Veer 4G. The device was slated to support the Touch-to-Share proximity-based sharing feature through a later update, but no official update supporting Touch-to-Share has been released although several users have purchased devices on eBay with fully implemented Touch-to-Share and SMS sharing support.
Following HP's announcement on August 18 that it would cease development of all WebOS hardware, the Veer was discontinued, and similar to the TouchPad, the price was lowered significantly in a firesale.
The HP Veer is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7230 which is a system-on-a-chip made by Qualcomm based on a 45 nanometer CMOS process. The Veer's own Snapdragon is composed, principally, of the Scorpion CPU, running at 800Mhz, an Adreno 205 GPU, a digital signal processor for cellular transmission/reception/processing (GSM, UMTS), gpsOne GPS module and an audio subsystem.
The Scorpion core implements the ARMv7 architecture which is similar to the ARM Cortex-A8 and supports the ARM NEON instruction set extensions and VFPv3 floating-point extensions (both referred as the “VeNum” media processing engine on Scorpion) which can accelerate, for example, image processing (camera). The main purpose of the VeNum engine is to boost the performance of the Scorpion CPU during multimedia processing resulting in power saving. The same task will be completed faster and with less power being consumed on a processor with VeNum media processing engine than one without.
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