Hewlett-Packard will hold a launch party for its webOS-based Veer smartphone May 2, according to the blog PreCentral. The blog also said AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will host an online Webinar to discuss the latest version of the webOS platform May 12.
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The blog, citing an invitation it said it found online, said the Veer event will be held in Anaheim, Calif. The blog said the invitation promised a three-hour event with "hands-on training, exciting demos and HP giveaways."
As for the AT&T event, the blog said it will be led by Josh Marinacci, from Palm's developer relations team.
An HP spokesman, Alex Hunter, said the company is not holding a launch party for the Veer and did not know what the invitation was referring to. An AT&T spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
HP has not said specifically when it will launch the Veer, or its other newest smartphone, the Pre3. The Veer sports a 2.6-inch screen, making it smaller than a credit card. The phone has tri-band UMTS and quad-band GSM/EDGE support, an 800 MHZ Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) Snapdragon processor, Wi-Fi, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and 8 GB of storage.
In March, HP CEO Leo Apotheker said HP wants to scale up the webOS ecosystem by shipping 100 million webOS-enabled products per year, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and printers. The HP chief said the company still considers Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) "a great partner," but that once HP's TouchPad tablet is launched in June, there will be "wave after wave of technology coming out to support webOS."
For more:
- see these two separate PreCentral posts
- see this HP-Palm blog post
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Article updated April 18 with comment from HP.