Peek email-only handheld gets reviewed

by Nilay Patel posted Sep 3rd 2008 at 3:03AM

For some reason, we're quite taken with the Peek email-only handheld, and Gadling's followup review of the love-it-or-hate-it device mostly reinforces that positive impression. The squared-off, Ideo-designed unit did its one task admirably well, sending and receiving emails using T-Mobile's network with only slight delay, and the OS is minimal and easy to use. Sure, at $99 and $20/mo it's still way too expensive for the typical gadget nerd who's already packing a phone data plan and maybe a data card as well, but if you're trying to keep things on the prepaid tip or looking to get a Luddite friend or relative on the mobile email bandwagon, the Peek is certainly worth a second, uh, peek.

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Tags: email, email handheld, EmailHandheld, mvno, peek

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Rudy @ Sep 3rd 2008 10:13AM

i think it is a great product for business to decrease the amount they spend and for hospitals to finally get rid of pagers

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hondamini @ Sep 3rd 2008 11:40AM

I never really thought of it from a business standpoint, but ya, that's a really good idea! Think of all the businesses that are forced to pay for cell phone plans when all they want to do is communicate via e-mail to people on the field!

I'm sure it won't work for a lot of businesses, and it will take time to incorporate, as well as current contracts to fall off before signing up. So I hope it's around long enough to take market share before R.I.P!