Oct 20, 2011

HP Veer WebOS-Smartphone


Palm Introduces the HP company, with a particularly compact Veer WebOS smartphone. Still do not have the comfort features like a slide out QWERTY keyboard and wireless-n will be omitted. The Veer has published a 2.57-inch glass screen on which a resolution of 320 x 400 pixels up to 262,144 colors. Among the typical gesture WebOS area exists, over which the mobile phone is partially served. Typing should be easily possible on the pull-out QWERTY keyboard. 





With the integrated 5-megapixel camera can record videos, too. As the processor is one of Qualcomm's Snapdragon is used, which runs at a clock speed of 800 MHz. The internal memory is only 8 GB in size, with an extensive music collection can be quickly run out, especially since the users of which only about 6.5 GB available.
Is a memory card slot does not exist. The RAM is 512 MB. In addition, the smartphone has a GPS receiver and the Palm typical ringer switch. Is a 3.5-mm jack, it only via adapter, which is magnetically attached to the mobile phone. Whether this mechanism holds in practice is questionable. The UMTS mobile phone works in all the four GSM networks and offers GPRS and EDGE and HSDPA at up to 7.2 Mbit / s. In addition, WLAN 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth 2.1 including A2DP profile provided. With the mobile hotspot application of HP's mobile phone can be connected to the wireless router for up to five devices.  


The Veer comes with the multitasking operating system WebOS 2.2 on the market. Contained in the WebOS Webkit browser will then work with the beta version of Flash 10.1; a final version is still not there for WebOS. In conjunction with the new HP Tablet WebOS-sharing feature is supported in contact. If a tablet with the Veer WebOS 3.0 touches, URLs will be transferred. Achieving this goal requires both devices at the same WebOS account logged in and be connected to the Internet. The Veer measures 84 x 54.5 x 15.1 mm and weighs 103 grams, which is comparatively little weight for a smartphone. The battery pack has a capacity of 910 mAh. The values ​​for the battery life times are given only vague. The maximum talk time is 5 hours; it is not known whether this applies to UMTS or GSM mode. The standby time is HP with 12.5 days. The inductive charging station Touchstone is directly supported by Veer. Thus the battery can be charged easily by the mobile phone is placed on the cradle as an accessory offered. Cable plug eliminates annoying. Here, the Exhibition mode of WebOS is supported. How much will cost the mobile phone then, HP was still a secret.

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