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HP and Palm have done away with the Pixi as their pocketable webOS handset and moved on to a brand new device family called Veer. It has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 2.6-inch display, the same Pre-style gesture area, a Flash-enabled web browser, 5 megapixel camera, 800 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, HSPA+ support, Wi-Fi b/g (with hotspot support) and GPS. It’ll be available in early spring.
The Veer is likely to run a new version of webOS, which has a couple of new features, like sharing media to the cloud through the inductive (wireless) charging Touchstone dock. We’re still liveblogging the announcement, but I’ll update here as any more HP Palm Veer details emerge.
Update: The official HP Veer page is up, along with a bunch of press shots below, and official spec sheet after the jump.
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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