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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com if you're tired of those large form factor phones out there then you probably really liked the palm pixi and palm pixi plus both of these devices have really small 2.6 inch displays with a really nice keyboard on the front very clicky by the way you can hear it they're super thin super light super tiny they slip into the pocket very easily and a lot of people really like this form vector while HP or palm previously known as is back with the veer which is their next version of the pixie taking that really small sort of form factor and bringing it to a smartphone operating system in this case the latest version of webOS why do they call it the veer well palm and HP wanted to quote veer away from these larger form factors and come out with a device that is tiny small in fact this is the smallest smartphone that you can get and in this video we're gonna unbox it let's get to it okay so before we get started let's take a look at the box here see if we have seen any interesting specs on the back we see built in a GPS of course a 5 megapixel camera no front-facing camera this is also HSPA+ compatible category 10 which means in theory you'll be able to get maximum speeds a 14 point 4 megabits per second in practice if you happen to have AT&T HSPA+ in your area you'll get probably about 6 megabits per second down not as fast as t-mobile 4G which is around 10 maybe 9 and Verizon and Sprint which are up there at about 12 to 14 megabits per second depending on how strong your connection is so we've got a 800 megahertz processor in the veer with 512 megabytes of RAM it's SPECT a lot higher than the original pixie and pixie Plus which should lead to a really nice experience again the latest version of webOS here with the stackable cards so let's slide it out and rough side down here and here's what it looks like obviously it looks very much like a shrunken down Palm Pre - and we've got a pre here to show you take off the cover here is the device it is super tiny and we're going to compare it to other devices in a second to show you how tiny it is and in the box we've actually got an interesting accessory to talk about now because the veer is so tiny it does not have a charging port it does not have a 3.5 millimeter audio jack kind of kind of depressing in a way but it's you gotta think about it like as different so so if you look around the device as you can see you don't see any of that any ports no 3.5 millimeter jack and no charging port we see this and this is the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack you must attach this piece which attaches with a magnet and then you've got your 3.5 millimeter headphone jack the hard thing of the difficult thing about this is that this pops off sort of easily well if you twist it a little bit so if you're at the gym and you you accidentally tug on the wire for the HPV R you're probably going to unplug the headset with that magnetic part but if you're charging it's not that big of a deal you're probably letting it alone on the desk or the floor or wherever you charge and this is what the charging cable looks like so just like three five millimeter headphone jack magnets suck it in you pull it off and so not a big deal a lot of people are complaining about this but that's that's the trade-off you get a small device but they had to remove a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and the charging port okay so let's take a look around the device here just a quick look and we've got a a palm esque quick button to turn the device into silent mode which is always handy to have we've got a power button here five megapixel camera on the back there's the speaker this phone is so small and my hands are kind of smallish so it really doesn't show you how some all this devices look at it next to the HP or that actually it's the palm you have to draw the line in the sand when Polly became HP the pre two so you can see that you could probably fit not two but one and a half veer on the the Palm Pre to Palm Pre - as a larger display here of 3.1 inches and it's got a faster processor one gigahertz for the same amount of RAM 512 so a little bit slower here in terms of the the clock speed of the processor but it should be pretty fast pretty well optimized for webOS and let's see if we can remove the back battery cover just to see what that's like I'm assuming that you pop it off here this device is so cute umm yeah we've got to look into that to figure out how to do that soft touch plastic on the back and make it makes it havin a nice in hand feel and of course they did away with the front-facing keyboard here now we've got a slide up keyboard and let's see how the size of the keys compared to the pre 2 so let's get a little bit closer and the keys are definitely smaller let's let's see if they're as clicky yes they are as clicky as the pixi people will be rejoicing about that across the interwebs so very cute spring-assisted slider nice looking device extremely small this is a cool phone to have if you're tired of those big devices out there that take up a large amount of space in your pocket or whatever got a lot more coverage coming up on the HP veer 4G we're going to run speed tests talk about the software talk about how fast it is compared to previous webOS devices and determine whether this device is too small or just the right size to be super pocket-friendly if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now