Verizon Home wares show up on mobile portal

by Darren Murph posted Feb 22nd 2009 at 8:11AM

We knew Verizon was planning remote scheduling for its Home Media DVR, and its Hub is evidence of its willingness to dabble in whole-home devices, but this... this, is interesting. A tipster over at ZatzNotFunny has pointed out that Verizon already has a mobile portal up for its Home products, and given that it's accessible via mobile web, it's completely platform agnostic. We're also told (and shown, after the break) that the portal works despite its "beta" label, as the user was able to schedule a recording on his FiOS TV set-top-box from his handset. We're not sure when Verizon plans on making this more public than it has already become, but why not fire it up on your cellphone and see how it goes?

[Via ZatzNotFunny]

Filed under: Multimedia, Verizon Wireless, Misc

Tags: fiber, fios, fios tv, FiosTv, mobile portal, MobilePortal, remote scheduling, RemoteScheduling, verizon, verizon home, VerizonHome

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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KilgoreTrout @ Feb 22nd 2009 9:54AM

What?
An american mobile telecom company getting ahead of our european counterparts?
What's the world coming to?

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Eric Wolf @ Mar 23rd 2009 3:36PM

Hmmm. Wasn't news when you reported it. Isn't news now. VZN has been advertising this to FiOS customers for some time - first via their web portal and then via specific VZN Wireless handsets.

Not clear if the handset limitation is technical, designed to allow time to ramp up, or designed to restrict the benefits of the technology to "quadruple play" customers...