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I'd wait a bit and see how everything pans out. I wouldn't get a Veer today if I was you.
HP is "exploring all options", which is a nice way of saying that they have no idea what to do with webOS yet because the decision to axe webOS hardware three months after they first started shipping any was taken so spontaneously that even webOS executives were taken by surprise by it; Leo and Cathy probably hatched that out yesterday night or something.
So unless you want to buy a phone now now, I'd say wait a few weeks.
Maybe we ARE blowing things out of proportion... maybe this is just a symptom of HP trying to shed its hardware body entirely and live on as a software ghost, and we're taking it personally...
If Samsung pops up with a licensing agreement, or HP pops up and they're saying webOS is being open-sourced to a group of OEMs just like Android used to be in the past (that is, of course, without HP building their own devices like Google is now that they bought moto...) we'll all be looking a bit stupid for assuming the worst just because HP decided to step out of hardware completely and focus on software from here on in.
There IS a chance of that happening, but the way HP handled stuff, they may have their work cut out for them convincing OEMs that they will, in fact, keep on improving and developing webOS and that they won't, next April, just matter-of-factly state that they'll be discontinuing webOS altogether, leaving a bunch of OEMs out in the rain. I suppose we will see.
If you want to buy a phone now now, webOS just isn't safe anymore. HP executives have made sure to state that HP is standing behind webOS and that webOS isn't going away - but just a month or two ago, they were still saying that HP is in it for the long run. HP's top executives apparently didn't even feel the need to tell HP's webOS GBU executives what was going to happen.
It's clear that the left hand at HP really really has no idea what in the hell the right hand is doing, and that the head is, quite literally, looking at the clouds without caring what either of its hands is doing.
As this is the case, we have no idea whether HP is still going to update the Veer to 2.2 to enable touch-to-share and bring Skype. If not, I'll be really really angry.
So if you like the Veer, wait a bit and see how this situation unfolds. It may yet turn out to be irate fangirls and boys blowing up over a weird phrase.
If you merely want a new small phone, go check out the Galaxy Mini. It's not as small and neat as the Veer of course, and from what I've seen it's not as nimble and smooth either, but while it probably isn't going to get any software updates either (which, in Android land, is par for the course - if you buy a phone at 2.2, you can be ecstatic if it gets 2.3, anything beyond that is up to your own ROM cookery) at least Android is a living ecosystem and Google isn't afraid to invest into its success the way HP is.
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Originally Posted by xBlackxBlood
