Aussies to get Telstra T-Hub tablet – a “fourth screen” device for the home

Telstra, which is kind of like the Australian version of Verizon, is introducing a “fourth screen” device called the T-Hub tablet. What’s a fourth screen device, you ask? Well it’s not your TV, your PC or your mobile phone. It’s a burgeoning category for any supplemental media device made for your home — like the M-Tube MID tablet.

The Telstra T-Hub is a 7 inch touchscreen tablet that will tap into Telstra’s existing service and offer VOIP-like voice ability through its companion wireless handset. Using the T-Hub service, the tablet would be connected to hi-speed broadband and could access the internet and play web video. We would guess that the tablet would be able to stream content through a wireless network to other devices like the M-Tube and Samsung Couple, but no other details have been released by Telstra.

The T-Hub tablet will be able to play Youtube videos, access social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, play internet radio, have an address book and calendar and can be used as a digital photo frame when not in use. It all sounds good in theory… until you hear some of the comments from those in Australia. Evidently Telstra doesn’t have a very high confidence rating with there user base.