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		<title>Verizon Hub</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Volks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadget Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw on a commercial today about Verizon Wireless&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I saw on a commercial today about Verizon Wireless&#8217; 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. </p>
<p>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&#8217;t look to have an internet browser. It does connect to the internet to get video and movie tickets but I didn&#8217;t see a browser. I&#8217;m hoping it was just something they didn&#8217;t mention. </p>
<p>The other feature I&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still going to look into purchasing this phone as it does have some nice features. However I&#8217;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. </p>
<p>Its probably going to be a long debate in my head, should be intersting.</p>
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