[1] The device was notable for its credit card-sized dimensions (and a depth that is comparable to the size of a deck of cards).

Following HP's announcement on August 18 that it would cease development of all WebOS hardware, the Veer was discontinued, and similar to the TouchPad, the price was lowered significantly in a firesale.

The Veer's own Snapdragon is composed, principally, of the Scorpion CPU, running at 800Mhz, an Adreno 205 GPU, a digital signal processor for cellular transmission/reception/processing (GSM, UMTS), gpsOne GPS module and an audio subsystem.

[8] The Scorpion core implements the ARMv7 architecture which is similar to the ARM Cortex-A8 and supports the ARM NEON instruction set extensions and VFPv3 floating-point extensions (both referred as the “VeNum” media processing engine on Scorpion)[9] which can accelerate, for example, image processing (camera).

The main purpose of the VeNum engine is to boost the performance of the Scorpion CPU during multimedia processing resulting in power saving.

The same task will be completed faster and with less power being consumed on a processor with VeNum media processing engine than one without.