AT&T to Launch HP Veer on May 2

By Allen Tsai | Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:16 pm
AT&T plans to launch the HP Veer, running its revamped WebOS software, at an event on May 2.
According to invitations, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company's event will feature "hands-on training, exciting demos and HP giveaways and begin promptly at 6:00 p.m."
The Veer, which was unveiled in February, along with the larger Pre 3, is a small, credit card-sized slider. It also runs WebOS 3.0, the platform HP acquired from Palm in a $1.2 billion buyout last year, and features a 2.6-inch touch screen display, 800-megahertz chip and 8-gigabytes of storage.
For HP, the Veer is the first in a line of WebOS-related products it plans to release to take on an industry dominated by Apple and Google. In addition, to smartphones and tablets, like its TouchPad, the company plans to include WebOS on every one of its PCs to "create a massive platform" across smartphones, tablets, PCs and even printers.
HP hopes to build an app ecosystem to match Apple and Google. To date, the company has a mere 6,000 apps. By comparison, Apple has around 350,000 apps and Google's Android has roughly 250,000.



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