Verizon Hub spotted streaming internet radio
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 23rd 2009 8:26PM
posted Feb 23rd 2009 8:26PM
posted Feb 23rd 2009 8:26PM
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Who thinks of these devices? Verizon should know everyone and their mother either has a notebook or a smart phone. http://www.dailymobileblog.com is going to write something about this...
Who thinks of advertising their site like that?
http://www.dailymobileblogsucks.com is going to write something about this...
exactly. this is an incredibly impractical device
...except most people (mothers included) don't have a netbook or a smart phone, in which case, this would be great for most people. Just because you happen to have a netbook and a smart phone doesn't mean everybody else does.
Still FAIL....
$200 + 2 yrs contract @ $35/mo. for a landline phone? Scape off those eye-candies (if ever were) there is nothing left. At least the HomeManager you can carry/put it anywhere, this Hub stays put where your gateway is. Lame!
iPhone/ ipod Touch + Pandora/Aol Radio + 2.1 speakers/sound dock = THE BEST INTERNET RADIO EXPERIENCE AVAILABLE.
@Flashpoint: Except that the rest of us have been doing that before the iPhone was even released and on data plans half the price. I remember listening to shoutcast and last.fm on my old Treo 650 years ago and when I got a 3G device 2 years ago I was streaming them all in full quality over headphones or bluetooth. Pandora was thankfully added this year as well.
Whats the point if its Still more expensive than Vonage?
This : 200+ 35/month
Vonage: 30/month
T-Mobile@Home: 10/Month
I don't see myself paying 200 for a fancy land line phone
ClearChannel, the same jagoffs that have ruined radio?
The whole point of Internet radio is to get AWAY from ClearChannel.
Duh.
You know now that you mention it the only radio stations that play the music I like are clear channel. I also quit listening to those stations and switched to mp3s because those stations sucked so bad.
ClearChannel radio format
Pick about 50 songs put them on a loop, add a DJ who thinks he is supper cool but in real life looks like a dork, and play 3 commercials to every 1 song ratio. Also don't ever play new music just keep repeating the same old songs that were released like 10 years ago even though those bands have come out with new stuff.
The display quality looks similar to what comes out when I take a dump.
Dude, WTF are you eating?
can i buy this w/o contract and hook it up via my wifi network and make it do cool stuff? if not, why not?
what is the point of this device?
They advertised this thing during a commercial break on Heroes tonight. Oh boy, I can drink orange juice from the carton while, er, getting a traffic report from it and texting my wife warning her to take a different route home.
I can do that now for a lot less money using a TV or Internet access and my cellphone. And drinking from the carton is disgusting.
I just saw a commercial for one of these on TV in San Diego. Some guy chugging OJ out of the carton checks traffic and weather.
oh pls, everyone knows you cant chug OJ out of the carton and check traffic and weather at the same time. maybe in 10 yrs.
Wait... if you had access to all the radio stations on the internet, why would you pick DC 101?
So exciting...
Make it cost $100, with a monthly fee that is NO higher than vonage.. Have updates VERY frequently, and be VERY in-tune with what the current "hot" thing on the Internet is and make sure those updates contain ways to access said "hot" thing, and this might be worth it.
Locking it into any one provider, lagging on updating it, or charging more than anyone else can pay by running out and getting vonage will be large fail.
WOW!! This is crazy... if you are paying more than 25 to 30 per month, you are paying too much. If you are paying for calling outside of the country, you are probably getting rip off. Please look into your options. Verizon is betting that people are not going to get educated on what options are out there, that are more affordable.
I use Globalinx for 29.99 per month... Not only do i have unlimted local and long distance to the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands... I also get calling to the UK, Italy, France, Spain,China, Australia, Portugal, and Ireland. (we are about to add Sweden, Nigeria, South Korea, Norway, and Finland) ... I can also make a very smooth (non-choppie) video call to my neices and my grandparents from anywhere in the world.
I went out of the country, took my videophone with me. When i got to the hotel, i plug it up to there internet and i had by US number there in the hotel. The VideoPhone will change the way we communicate.
And on top of all that, the video phone is cheaper then Verizon HUB and i don't have to have verizon wireless service to get it. And is a better quality audio call then vonage. Check it out
http://www.globalinx.com/?bNew=True&strRIN=L356818
Ryan -
www.5linx.net/t3