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Verizon Wireless will change the old kitchen home phone system when it releases the Verizon Hub on February 1st.  Touted as an innovative home phone system, the Verizon Hub is a home phone system that connects to a broadband connection that allows families to use it as a home phone or an Internet communication system.  Verizon wants U.S. families to abandon their old home phones for this new multi-function home phone system with touchscreen navigation.

Let’s take a look at what it can do.  According to Verizon, the Verizon Hub gives you the following information:

• daily local traffic and weather conditions
• turn-by-turn navigational directions
• telephone numbers of establishments
• movie previews and movie ticketing service

You can get this information through the Verizon Hub’s touchscreen interface.  Of course, you get the usual calling features of a home phone system with voicemail, contact list management, and text messaging alerts.  The Verizon Hub connects to broadband through Verizon FiOS or DSL or even other high-speed ISPs in the U.S.

What makes Verizon Hub seem exciting is the fact that it will enable you to access information and its other functionality even if you are away from the Hub itself.  It actually offers some sort of “synchronization”  which allows you to update your home’s Verizon Hub wirelessly from the Verizon Hub website and your updates will be reflected on your Verizon Hub home account.  In addition, the Verizon Hub will also allow you to connect your other Verizon devices to the Hub and gives you access to other popular Verizon Wireless services including VZ NavigatorSM, Chaperone, and V CAST contents.

Read: [Verizon News Center]