I had no idea the "HUB" existed until I went into verizon looking to get cell phones for me and my wife. I was convinced by the sales clerk that the HUB was a good investment. I bought one.
I really do like the concept of the HUB. It is much better than a regular house phone, with all the services and information it could provide.
However, I have had nothing but problems with my HUB. It always loses connection with my wi-fi. When this happens I do not receive calls, cannot make calls, get no information, and the problem will never fix itself unless I restart it. If I dont realize its not connected then I could go hours or days with no home phone and not know it.
It also does other things like have a very poor sound quality. Half the time it doesnt ring when receiving OR making calls. So you call someone, and it doesnt ring. There is simply silence while you wait for someone to answer. That wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt for the fact that half the time its not even calling the person so you sit there listening to silence wondering if it is actually making a call or not.
Now that the HUB has been discontinued, we are screwed. The only thing I was holding on to was for an updated model that had all the bugs worked out. Or for a big fix to the operating system. something to get all these kinks out. Maybe some good new features that would make this all worth it. But alas, there is now no light at the end of the tunnel. No more real work will be put into this. They are just going to wait for those of us who have it to die out so they can forget about this contraption.
Verizon should at least let us out of our contracts for this thing so we can at least cancel it without penalty. I mean I signed the contract under the assumption that this technology would be continually developed, not abandoned.
I am very disappointed in Verizon for trapping in us in a contract with the same device they have abandoned.
