So if I abandon my Verizon cell phone for an AT&T iPhone, now I’ll have to not only pay a termination fee for my Verizon cell phone contract, but my home phone will stop working and I’ll pay a termination fee there too? And since the two services won’t have their two-year contracts aligned to end on the same date, there might NEVER be a time when you can get out from under them. Oh right, that’s exactly what they had in mind.

Here’s the proper implementation: Anybody can buy it. It has a femtocell inside it so that it will boost your signal if you’re a Verizon cell phone subscriber. It costs less if you are a subscriber to both. But you don’t have to be.

And the calendar and contact implementation? They just don’t get it obviously. A proprietary calendar that doesn’t integrate with anything? Have they even heard of Web 2.0?

I may eventually install a “kitchen computer”. With a touchscreen and wireless keyboard. But it’ll be based on a standard OS, use my existing internet connection, be able to browse the whole web, have some kind of aggregating contact/calendar (or just use Google). And of course let me install any other software that suits my fancy.

Sorry, FAIL.

I’m a busy family. My wife has an iPhone. I have a Blackberry. Busy families that can afford $200+$35 per month have things like Blackberries and iPhones.
We keep a joint calendar that is available to us already, for free, with Google. This device doesn’t replace our iPhone/Blackberry. When I take a phone message, I e-mail it to my wife. I can send her a text message when I want to get in touch with her. Why exactly would I leave a note on my Verizon Hub?

So, it does all of these for people who don’t have smart cell phones. That is cool. However, don’t those people already have computers at home? I mean, if you have internet (required for the Hub), don’t you have a computer to hook it too?

So, the device is for busy people, who are apparently tied to their house, without a laptop computer, but who can afford $200 plus $35 per month for a telephone and calendar. $200+$435 for the first year alone is $625.

A Dell laptop on Dell’s website, today, can be had for $499. It comes with no monthly service charge. I could place that $499 next to my home phone and just leave it connected to Gmail, google maps, and weather.com. Why is the Verizon thing different?

Your previous article mentioned FiOS integration. What’s the status of that? Is it in the final product or no?