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 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.
[…] Verizon Wireless has announced availability of Navigator Version 4. With spoken turn by turn directions to more than 14 million local businesses and attractions in the United States. Features include: Traffic integration for 75 cities with routing that is calculated using both historical and real-time traffic flow.There’s also a historical traffic view so you can see whether the route you’re navigating is historically hampered by heavy traffic during your travel time. This updated version includes weather reports and a way to search for the lowest gas prices. […]