I saw on a commercial today about Verizon Wireless’ newest telephone the Verizon Hub. At first glance it looks like a very cool gadget. The concept of this phone is something I have thought about for a year or two now. A touch screen LCD monitor that has features such as voice mail, purchasing movie tickets, contacts, sending instant messages and a bunch of other features. 

So I took a look at their website and dove into the technical details of the phone. A couple of things I disliked about what I was reading were, it doesn’t look to have an internet browser. It does connect to the internet to get video and movie tickets but I didn’t see a browser. I’m hoping it was just something they didn’t mention. 

The other feature I’m not thrilled with but understand why they did it is everything seems to be Verizon only. If you want to send a text message, you have to send it to a verizon phone, if you want to send directions, again it has to goto a verizon phone. I would have like to see them try a more open source attitude and make things more universal. I also would like to see the directions goto Google Maps but that is a personal preference of mine.

What would be really nice is to load the Android operating system onto it with the ability to develop and/or download new apps. Just my thoughts.

I’m still going to look into purchasing this phone as it does have some nice features. However I’ve been considering purchasing a G1 when my contract is up in September which would kind of negate a lot of the features the Hub would provide me, mostly the text messaging and the text messaging alerts I would get from the Hub. 

Its probably going to be a long debate in my head, should be intersting.