A new Hewlett-Packard phone has just received its FCC clearance, with the agency publishing the documentation showing the phone's compliance with testing. After examining the evidence made available through these publications, there's a good chance that we're looking at the Pre 3 as configured for a launch on Verizon Wireless. According to the FCC documents, this HP phone carries model number F30CV, one we haven't seen show up previously. Considering that the F30CN with AT&T frequency bands has already arrived at the FCC, presumably the Pre 3 on AT&T, it seems pretty clear that we're ...

It looks like the HP Veer 4G, a.k.a. Palm Veer, will be coming to AT&T -- as suspected -- in the currently-popular shade of white. So far, we've only seen Veer in all black -- in fact, this would be the first white webOS device, period, to our knowledge. Actually, like most "white" handsets these days, this one looks to be more of a two-tone; thanks to a recent interview featuring Apple's Phil Schiller and Steve Jobs, we now know that there are several challenges in building a phone with a white face, including sensors not functioning properly. Veer, with its 800MHz processor and petite ...

Palm introduced the HP Veer back at the beginning of February with its cute little face, webOS 2.1, HSPA+ data, 512MB of RAM, and 8GB of storage. Just recently, Mini Coopers have been spotted promoting the HP Veer 4G with the motto "Small is the New Big". HSPA+ speeds were known since the announcement and it looks like AT&T is ready to start promoting the smartphone -- using its naming convention -- as the Veer 4G. The trend is general with other devices having 4G names (think Inspire 4G, Atrix 4G, EVO 4G, Thrill 4G, etc.) so the tiny Veer couldn't go unnoticed. Whether HSPA+ is a real 4G ...

We're a sucker for seeing phones run operating systems they were never intended to, whether that's an HTC HD7 that appears to be running Android, or an HD2 running... well, pretty much anything. The latest device to get the frankenphone treatment is an unlikely candidate, but sure enough, it looks like the Palm Pre has been configured for dual-boot with Android. After copying over the necessary Android files to your Pre (consisting of a no-frills stock build of Android), and running the install script, your Palm Pre will be ready to start playing around with Android. Obviously, this is ...

While we initially hoped we might see webOS 2.x appear on the first generation of Pre-like devices, the majority of users will see their Palms live out their lives on webOS 1.4.5. Now a user on the PreCentral forums has posted pictures of what appears to be a Palm Pixi Plus running the latest webOS 2.1, creating the possibility for the software to be dumped and distributed. The images are apparently from a phone bought in the US and shipped to Vietnam, where the buyer made his discovery. The phone may be some sort of development model, as it has some odd quirks, like having four of its ...

The codename Stingray first appeared back in November along with Roadrunner, Broadway, Windsor and Mantaray thanks to code from a Palm Pre 2 recovery ROM. Could the device above be the Stingray? pre|central reports it's a webOS device with a screen resolution of 480 x 800 (WVGA) and it lacks a keyboard -- much like a keyboard-less Pre3 if you will. Mantaray turned out to be the codename for the Pre3 and Broadway for the Veer and from the remainder, Stingray is reported to be the best guess. There's currently no other information related to this smartphone like specs or a timeframe. Could ...

HP's Veer is testament to just how much phone you can cram into how tiny a package. While that's caused some concessions to be made (like an abandonment of traditional jacks in favor of an awkward series of magnetic adapters), the company has ultimately managed to squeeze a smartphone - and one with a QWERTY keyboard at that - into a package with the profile of a credit card. Up until now we've only hear "early spring" as for when to expect the webOS device, but now O2 Germany has given us what looks like plausible date for a European release, narrowing things down to sometime in May. O2's ...

When Palm debuted its webOS platform, it enlisted the company MotionApps to develop an emulator named "Classic" that would allow the running of older palmOS applications. With the debut of webOS 2.0, Palm removed Classic's ROM from webOS, which disabled the ability to run these classic palm applications. Thanks to enterprising developers over at the pre central forums, the Classic emulator is now fully operational on webOS 2.1. When Palm pulled their support for older Palm OS applications, MotionApps decided to release the source code for it's Classic emulator to Palm, saying that it could ...