Verizon Hub Integrates VoIP and Wireless with Lots of Advanced Features

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on January 23, 2009 1:17 PM

Verizon Wireless will offer the new Verizon Hub on Feb. 1. It's a new touch screen home phone system with a souped-up home communications system, bridging wireline and wireless connectivity using a broadband connections.

Out of the box, the Verizon Hub has advanced calling features plus visual voicemail and contact list management. Verizon Wireless has also added messaging options, including text message, calendar alerts and audible turn-by-turn directions delivered to Verizon Wireless phones from the Verizon Hub - with just a few simple taps on the screen.

Services offered in through the Verizon Hub:

Check local traffic and weather in the morning before leaving the house.
Update your calendar and automatically receive a text when an appointment changes or as a reminder not to be late.
Get directions to the new site when the location for soccer practice is moved.
Find the number of the new pizza parlor to order a pie.
Preview the trailers from an upcoming movie that you might want to take the family to over the weekend, then purchase tickets using the Verizon Hub.

Families on the go can access all the information and functionality of the Verizon Hub remotely from a companion website, even adding calendar entries for family members and inputting new contacts from the Web site. The home-based Verizon Hub is instantly updated.

Verizon Wireless customers who bring the Verizon Hub into their homes can connect to popular applications including VZ Navigator and Chaperone, as well as incorporate their wireless devices through text, picture and video messaging between wireless phones and the Verizon Hub. New and exciting V CAST content will also be available on the Verizon Hub, and when not in use, the Verizon Hub doubles as a digital picture frame displaying all of your favorite photos.

The Verizon Hub will cost $199 after a $50 rebate, require a two year contract -- and will require a $34.99 Verizon Hub and Digital Voice service plan.