Well, it's a bit past May 2nd, but AT&T has now finally officially announced that it will be carrying the HP Veer -- or Veer 4G, as it prefers to call it. The diminutive smartphone will be available on May 15th in your choice of black or white for $99.99 on a two-year contract. That will buy you a 2.6-inch 320 x 400 display, an 800MHz Snapdragon processor, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of internal storage and, of course, webOS 2.1 for an OS -- all in a package about the size of a credit card. As you might expect, however, that 4G addition does literally come with an asterisk -- the phone itself only has basic HSPA capabilities. (We've confirmed that HSPA+ is a go.) Head on past the break for the complete press release.
Update: We've heard rumblings that this bantam device wouldn't actually support / handle HSPA+, so we reached out to HP and AT&T for clarification. Both outfits were adamant that the Veer's 4G hardware would indeed support HSPA+ in areas that have upgraded cell towers. AT&T affirmed that "the Veer has HSDPA Cat 10, which is HSPA+," while Palm belted out the following: "The Veer supports HSDPA Cat 10 and HSUPA Cat 6. For reference, this is the same for the Motorola Atrix 4G and HTC Inspire 4G both currently available from AT&T."
AT&T officially announces HP Veer 4G, available May 15th for $100 (update: HSPA+ confirmed) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 May 2011 10:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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