Back in February when HP introduced the smallest full-featured HP webOS smartphone HP Veer 4G, it’s only said that the phone will be available in early spring without any info about the exact date yet the pricing. But today it’s all clear as AT&T announced that the phone will be available from AT&T stores and online on May 15. The Veer will be offered at $99.99 with a two-year contract both in black or white color.

Read more details about the HP Veer 4G at AT&T website.

AT&T Goes Small With HP Veer 4G

Exclusive Smartphone for AT&T Customers Available May 15, Packs a Big Experience into a Powerfully Small Design

Dallas, Texas, May 04, 2011

Key Facts

• The new HP Veer 4G*, the size of a credit card and no thicker than a deck of cards, will be the smallest full-featured HP webOS smartphone to date and AT&T’s** first to run the latest version of webOS software.
• Perfect for feature phone or quick messaging phone users looking for all of the features and capabilities of a smartphone without compromising on size and style.
• Exclusive in the U.S. for AT&T customers, HP Veer 4G is available in black and white.
• HP Veer 4G will be available from AT&T at company-owned stores and online at http://www.att.com/ on May 15 and will cost $99.99 with a two-year contract.

4G Portfolio

AT&T is a pioneer in smartphones and devices, and expects to widen its portfolio in 2011. In January, AT&T committed to introducing 20 4G devices by the end of the year.  Available exclusively to AT&T customers, HP Veer 4G will be one of several 4G devices offered in the first half of 2011.

Customer Benefits

With the HP Veer 4G, AT&T customers can have it all – access to the web, apps, social networks and more, all in one powerfully small design. For those who value size, pocketability and style, Veer offers a refreshing alternative to the larger smartphone devices that are currently in the market, without compromising on functionality.

Powered by HP webOS, Veer offers an advanced browser and an incredibly fast processor for a fantastic web experience including Adobe Flash support, plus 8GB of internal user storage and a full keyboard that slides out for fast texting and email.  Notifications instantly display messages, reminders, and Facebook® updates on a vivid 2.6-inch touchscreen, with instant messages, texts and pictures from the same person available all in one view.

HP Veer 4G comes preloaded with several popular apps including mobile hotspot and AT&T Navigator.  The mobile hotspot functionality*** allows users to share wireless internet connectivity with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices while AT&T Navigator**** a GPS-enabled navigation service, is designed to provide you with clear and precise audible and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, including full-color moving maps, using GPS directly from your wireless phone.

In addition, thousands of apps are available at your fingertips in the redesigned webOS App Catalog – social networking, health and fitness, productivity, finance, games—you name it. With Veer, customers are able to keep multiple apps open at once and easily switch back and forth between them. Purchasing apps is now even easier with the addition of carrier billing. Customers can now buy apps on their phone and have it added to their monthly bill with just a tap.

If you need a little help finding your way or locating cool things to do around you, Veer also boasts built-in GPS.

Key Specifications

• HP webOS 2.1
• 3.63 ounces
• Tri-band UMTS: 850/1900/2100; HSDPA Cat 10/HSUPA Cat 6
• Quad-band GSM/EDGE
• 800Mhz processor (Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7230)
• 2.6-inch multitouch display screen with a vibrant 18-bit color, 320×400 resolution
• Slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard
• Email and integrated IM, SMS and MMS
• Facebook integration, YouTube
• Wi-Fi/aGPS capable
• 5-megapixel camera with extended depth of field, geotagging, and video capture
• Stereo Bluetooth (2.1)
• 8GB internal storage(~6.1GB available)
• 910 mAh battery; up to 5.0 hours of talk time or up to 300 hours of standby time.
• webOS WebKit browser with Flash support
• HP Touchstone compatible (sold separately)

To learn more about the HP Veer 4G, visit www.att.com/mobilephones-news.

Almost exactly one month after the announcement, finally we got new update about the new HP webOS devices: HP Pre 3, HP Veer and HP TouchPad. These devices are now available for pre-order from a UK reseller KingOfGadgets.co.uk. However, seems like those devices are still available in limited number only. The last time we checked to the website said that the HP Pre 3 is already in ‘Out of Stock’ status. So, you better be hurry or just wait until more stocks available.

Despite this limited stock issue, at least you know now the pricing for these webOS devices. And if you want to get it from other places, i’m sure it would be more or less similar. As you can see on the website, the unlock version of HP Pre 3 if offered at £499.00 or exactly the same price with the HP Veer. While for the tablet HP TouchPad, you can get it for £699.00.

[via: KingOfGadgets]

More details about HP Pre 3 including features and others can be found at HP Pre 3 page on Palm’s website.

HP Veer

HP Veer is the smallest webOS device to date, comes in the size of a credit card but offers the higher-end features of a smartphone. At just 54.5 mm x 84.0 mm x 15.1 mm and only 103 grams, Veer touts an 800 MHz processor, a vivid 2.57-inch glass display, full slide-out keyboard, 8GB of internal user storage, a high-performance browser with full access to the web including support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta, Wi-Fi, integrated GPS, robust messaging support, and multimedia options including musics, photos, video-recording and playback, and a 5-megapixel camera.

The HP Veer smartphone is scheduled to be available in the early spring. But there’s no exact date yet pricing available so far. For more details please read the HP veer full press release.

HP Pre 3

HP Pre 3 is the medium size devices introduced at the webOS event. It comes in a thin slider with the largest QWERTY keyboard yet with 3.6-inch display at WVGA resolution or 2.5 times that what Pre has. It has a 5 megapixel camera, HD video with stabilization, front-facing camera for video calling, Wi-Fi b/g/n, 8GB or 16GB storage, and a Qualcomm processor at 1.4GHz.

The HP Pre 3 is scheduled to be available in the summer. But no exact date yet the pricing available so far. For more details please read the HP Pre 3 full press release.

HP Touch Pad

And finally the large size devices HP Touch Pad. It has a 9.7 inch display at 1024×768, Beats Audio built-in, weigh a little more than 1.5 pounds and 13 mm thick. It’s equipped with a dual-core Qualcomm 8660 Snapdragon processor at 1.2GHz, full 1 GB of RAM, and will be available in either 16GB or 32GB of storage. The HP TouchPad has all the webOS features including card stacks, Synergy and the Palm Profile.

Like the Pre 3, the HP TouchPad will be available in the summer. For more details please read the HP TouchPad full press release.

Here’s the source code looks like,

if ((machineType.contentEquals(“broadway”)) ||
(machineType.contentEquals(“windsor”)) ||
(machineType.contentEquals(“mantaray”)) ||
(machineType.contentEquals(“stingray”)) ||
(machineType.contentEquals(“roadrunner”)))
{ this.flasherLogger.logPrintln(“temporarily not
restoring logs for newer devices”);

There’s also something called “A6UpdateStage” mentioned on the code which is probably something related to internal hardware. I hope this “A6″ is not something related to the Palm UP383562A A6 Battery which is kind of old accessories.

So for the moment let’s just keep that in the rumor mill and see how HP transforms their hardware expertise to Palm.

[via: Pre Central]

Despite this great news, we also have to say sorry to Palm Pixi’s users knowing that the Adobe Flash support won’t be available for Pixi or Pixi Plus. At least that’s what we can see from the Palm Pre 2 Press release few days ago.

(6) The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is compatible only with Palm Pre devices; not compatible with Pixi or Pixi Plus.

Well this could be a little disapointment but still a good news though.

[source: Palm Pre, Palm Pixi]

The picture on the left above is the P102EWW and on the right is the P102UNA. According to the source, the name “P102″ indicates the Pre 2 it self while “EWW” is for CDMA and “UNA” is for North American GSM/UMTS. However, sadly to say that the UNA model will not come with AWS capability which means users on T-Mobile will only able to enjoy the Pre 2 at 2G speeds.

[via: Engadget]

It’s make sense though in that way HP exercised their brand and power into Palm’s products. But the next question is, will it be only for the Operating Sytem or HP also have plans to rebrand all next Palm’s products including handsets and take off the “Palm” name completely? If that’s happened, it probably would affect the way how people see and use the products.

So for those of you webOS and Palm fans, do you love webOS and Palm device because of the “Palm” name or the brand is not a big deal as long as it delivers great hardware and functionalities?

Palm Pre 2 is the first Palm phone with a gigahertz processor and features a 5 megapixel camera, a glass screen and a sleeker, streamlined design with a combination of a vivid touchscreen and a slide-out keyboard. Palm Pre 2 will be a great combination with webOS 2.0 and all it’s great new features including the True Multitasking and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta support.

Below is the complete list of webOS 2.0 features highlight:

True Multitasking – Pause a game, tap an email notification, check your calendar, read a restaurant review, send an email reply, then switch back to the game without closing anything.(1,2)  webOS lets you easily manage multiple open applications and notifications using natural touch gestures. New in webOS 2.0, Stacks logically groups together your open apps so they work the way you do. Whether you’re reading email or planning a night on the town, Stacks keeps related items together so managing multiple tasks is even easier.

Just Type – Start an email, create a message, update your status, search your favorite websites – all before you’ve even opened an app.(1) With webOS 2.0, whenever you want to do something on your phone – whether it’s emailing, texting, searching or almost anything – just type. And Just Type is open to developers, so they can integrate with the search function and add their own user-customizable shortcuts, called Quick Actions.

HP Synergy – webOS was the first mobile OS to connect you seamlessly to multiple web services. With the Synergy feature, you just have to sign in to your Facebook, Google, Microsoft® Exchange, LinkedIn and Yahoo! accounts and your information automatically populates your phone.(3) webOS 2.0 will extend the support for Synergy so developers can easily plug new Messaging, Contacts and Calendar application sources directly into the core webOS experiences.(4)

Exhibition – A new way to use your webOS phone, Exhibition lets you run apps designed specifically for the Palm Touchstone Charging Dock, turning charge time into useful time.(4, 5) Set your phone on the dock and Exhibition launches automatically, showing you anything from today’s agenda to a slideshow of your Facebook photos. Exhibition will enable developers to display aspects of their existing app experience or create specialized apps for use when users have their webOS device in charge mode on the charging dock.

Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 Beta – With version 2.0, webOS now supports a beta of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 in the browser, which provides access to rich, Flash based web content.(6)

webOS 2.0 also includes many more new features, including the following:

Favorites – With webOS 2.0, you can tag your favorite contacts so they appear as favorites in Phone and Contacts views. When you search for them by name, they instantly show up at the top of the Contacts, Email, Messaging and Phone apps. Favorites make it simple to get in touch fast.

Skype Mobile™ (Verizon Wireless only) – For Verizon Wireless customers, webOS 2.0 supports Skype-to-Skype calls and messaging while in the United States to anywhere in the world, and low-rate calls to international landlines and cell phones.

Text Assist – webOS 2.0 offers greatly expanded capabilities to spell check, auto correct, set up macros and customize the dictionary.

Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite – An all-new document viewer from the leading provider of mobile document viewers offers support for Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and provides integration with a variety of services, including Google Docs and Dropbox.

Facebook 2.0 – Available via the Palm App Catalog, Facebook 2.0 will support Facebook IM via Synergy in the Messaging application,(4) as well as Stacks, status updates via Quick Action and the Exhibition feature.

Browser – The browser adds support for more HTML5 features, including geolocation support. OpenSearch plugin support makes it easy to add your favorite websites to Just Type web search.

Messaging – The unified Messaging app in webOS 2.0 adds Yahoo! IM and buddy management. Customers can now connect to their buddies through SMS, MMS, Google Talk, AIM and Yahoo! IM.

VPN – webOS 2.0 supports the most popular ways to connect to a corporate network, including IPsec and Cisco AnyConnect mobile optimized VPN, which supports SSL (TLS and DTLS).

App Catalog – The redesigned Palm App Catalog makes finding and discovering great apps even easier.(7) And the new Software Manager helps you keep your apps up-to-date.

Launcher – A redesigned app launcher lets you add, label and reorder launcher pages.

Phone – The webOS 2.0 Phone app lets you easily dial your favorites and offers reverse area code lookup and Skype Mobile integration (Skype Mobile for Verizon Wireless only).

Accounts – The new Accounts app provides a single place to manage all your Synergy accounts.

Bluetooth® keyboards – webOS now supports Bluetooth keyboards and Bluetooth SPP peripherals, enabling applications such as barcode readers and realty lock boxes.

A host of developer features – In addition to Exhibition, Just Type and Synergy APIs, webOS 2.0 adds Node.JS, enabling developers to create services in JavaScript. They also can now use the webOS Plug-In Development Kit (PDK) to combine C/C++ with web technologies in a single app.

Read the full Press Release of webOS 2.0 and Palm Pre 2 Announcement!

The Roadrunner device spotted for the first time last week on the same Metrix logs. It was a webOS developer who created an app with Foursquare reported this info. And this time, the Roadrunner comes again tweeted by KillinItLLC, the developer of popular game Cloud Hopper.

Check out the chart of the Metrix developer logs below:

The following info could make this Roadrunner thing become more real:

• Phone Arena recently published an “unofficial” Verizon upcoming phones which included Palm Pre 2 for October release

Our source indicates that we might see the Palm Pre 2 doing its thing at this time, however, every bit of info regarding this possible successor seems to be held pretty tightly right now.

• Jon Rubinstein with an interview with Fortune magazine recently affirmed that webOS 2.0 will be available for download later this year.
• Another hint by Jon Rubinstein said that Palm is also developing hardware in an aggressive manner.

As October is coming soon, it’s really interesting to see what Palm will bring for the first time after the HP acquisition.