The Peek
December 3, 2008 by jim
Filed under Communication
If a gadget makes it as Time Magazine’s gadget of the year, it MUST be really good. From a recent Time Magazine poll readers voted The Peek as gadget of the year. This email only device seem to have hit the right spot.
Sure there are multi-tasking gadgets around but let’s face it, a lot of us would rather simplify by having one gadget for this, and one for that. Peek R&D wanted to prove this theory and so they made a simple gadget. Peek’s November 1 introductory price was around £54 after a mail in rebate, but now, seems they decreased the price to £33. Add a £13/month service fee for that and you’re set. Still a little steep for an “email only” function but it sure does it quite well AND the small size of it sure does sell this cake to business people. Heavy laptops are so 80s! 
Setting up the Peek is as easy as logging into your GMail account, just enter your email address and password. By the way, it can access 3 separate email accounts in one Peek device. As for attachments, it can only accept JPEG and GIF files which I thought was a little bad, but still OK. Check out the FAQs right here. As of this writing the Peek service is only available in the USA though their website says they’re working deals now with the UK and other European countries real soon. This may be something to look out for Q1 of 2009.
The Peek comes in 3 colors (silver, burgundy & baby blue), quite a good gift actually for your American friends. You can get one for them online right here.
And the specs:
- Battery Life – 4-5 days under typical usage
- Dimensions – 4.0 x 2.7 x 0.4 in (102 x 68 x 10mm)
- Weight – 3.8 ounces (109 gm)
- Display – 2.5 inches (320 x 240 pixels (QVGA), 65k colors)
- Memory – 8MB of user memory (holds more email than you’d expect!)
- Radio – US Triband GPRS (800, 1800, and 1900 Mhz)
- Data – GPRS (Packet Data standard in GSM)
- CPU – Embedded 104MHz ARM7 TI chipset
- OS – Peekux
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