Verizon will be launching an app store for its Verizon Hub, home phone communications management center. Verizon is s opening the device to new application developers and will remove the rule that Hub buyers have to be Verizon Wireless customers.
"We're in the process of getting rid of that restriction," said John Gravel, a Verizon product manager told Reuters on Wednesday. "Why would you limit anyone from using this?"
The manager also showed Reuters a sleeker Hub product that looks like a digital picture frame with skinnier cordless phone handset.
The Verizon Hub is getting a lot of advertising attention with Television commercials. Matt Buchanan at Gizmodo wrote that he is getting excited about the Verizon Hub because it is built on the open Linux platform and can work with all kinds of devices.
Future versions will have a WebKit browser, a real email client, and a Twitter app. There is a Flickr
screensaver app and Rhapsody app that lets you stream
music.
The Verizon Hub is finally getting more hubbub in a way to connect family, friends and the web.