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February 4, 2013 1 Comment 
The Peek Classic came into the market place in 2008. It was even voted “Gadget of the year by Time Magazine” back then. And now, it’s gone. I have no idea what happened to folks who paid $299.99 for lifetime service. I guess that was for the lifetime of the gadget, not the customer! Here’s the original review when the Peek was at it’s peek! Now, it's just warehouse junk.
Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Netcast 679
Peek -- A Way To Get & Send Emails & Nothing Else!
If you have a PDA, a Smart Phone or other device to get your emails, you won't be interested in the Peek. The Peek is new device that receives and sends email. It can open attachments and it can let you see photos that someone emails you, but it can do nothing else. But the pictures have to be JPEGS. This is not for the geek, but more for the geeks parents who might want to get & send emails, period! You can emails via popular services like Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and AOL. Each device can have up to three accounts, although the three email accounts are combined into the same inbox. It's easy to set up and pretty easy to use. A scroll wheel on the side highlights your menu choices, and then you push in on the wheel to select it. For some odd reason when you highlight an email, you then have also go to read email. I don’t why you need that extra step. The keyboard letters are backlit, which is very nice and the device is the size of a very, very thin pack of cards. The Peek notifies you that have emails by vibrating, making a chime sound and setting off a blinking blue light. The display is a 2.5” (240 pixels by 320 pixels) color and it looks pretty decent. I’d like to see a bigger type face but the PR folks told that is coming in November. The Peek has 8 megabytes of memory. That’s equal to about 5,000 emails. So Leo could use it for two days before he has to clear the memory to make room for more emails. Peek says if you start with a fully charged battery it should last about five days assuming you get and send 10 to 15 emails a day. Power users who send and receive 200 to 300 emails a day will get about two days of use from a full charge. I have the red Peek, but it also come in charcoal gray, aqua blue, and black cherry. Hmm, I guess I don’t have red. I have black cherry! It’s $100 at Target or at the company’s website. Service is $20 a month and there’s no contract! Soon they’ll offer an annual deal. If you pay for 12 months, you’ll get one month free. But I would go with the month to month until you’re sure the PEEK serves your need.
See or hear this Netcast: www.twit.tv/giz1402
Hear this five-year-old Netcast: www.twit.tv/dgw679
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Letter of the week about the Kickstarter project: "When were were MAD! A Documentay of Ecch-ic Proportions". Here's the link for that, but it ends February 8th, 2013.
Reader Comments (1)
Except for the noise, the keyboard of the Peek was excellent. Rarely had a typo. I own the Peek, Peek Pronto, and Peek 9. I got a lot of use out of the Pronto but felt ripped off when they switched to 9 and claimed the Pronto wasn't compatible to their new software. Yeah right. If you reset the Peek 9, guess what the device says you have.... Peek Pronto.