We're still trying to piece together the
Verizon Hub mystery -- namely whether it'll be available outside the realm of Verizon's FiOS broadband customer base -- but either way, we have some evidence here that it'll play nice with the Verizon Wireless handset of your choice. The device was designed from the start to be the be-all, end-all wireline home base (hence the name), so it really comes as no surprise that there'd be some interaction with mobiles for those rare occasions when you simply must leave your home. What you see here are a couple of diagrams (just follow the arrows!) involving the transfer of information to and from Verizon Wireless-branded cellphones; in the first, an address is looked up using the Hub's yellow pages facility, located on a map, then transferred to an
LG VX9400. In the second, a lovely photograph from a beach (seriously, what are we doing in front of a computer right now?) is snapped and transferred to a Hub, where it's displayed in real time. Fun stuff -- let's hope owners of any old broadband connection are going to be able to partake.
posted Apr 22nd 2008 1:09PM
i don't get it. how is this better than just looking up the map on my tilt? or snapping a pic and sending it to my computer (mms, bluetooth, cable, email)? or just using my router and skype? seems pretty pointless, am i missing something?
Verizon has a teaser site up at http://www22.verizon.com/residential/broadband/fiosfone/. Note the verizon.com/verizon-hub site mentioned in the flash tour is not up.
Convenience and integration are how it's better. No cables to transfer files. No computers in the middle. Keep it in a convenient location, do a quick lookup of a place you need to go, get the directions, send it to you cell phone, take the pictures from your cell phone and send it to the conveniently located device that looks an awful lot like a digital picture frame.
About the flash tour....that sucker was older than old. It didn't include doing things like thie picture is showing. I'm glad they took it down.