I was pretty interested in this myself until I read the fine print on their site and found out that it only supports 3 email addresses. I guess it's not unreasonable to consolidate mine more but I'd expect at least 5 for what they're charging if not unlimited.

James D

At first this looked like a fine/great idea. But then I saw it is 80$ for the item and 20$ for the service. Perhaps it can be used instead of pagers? I don't know though, most places that use them only want one way communication.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@Michael Leung: Gmail just got a feature like that.

bestpersonintheunivers

Wasn't there some sort of phone service that let you do pretty much the same thing? Like sending an e-mail to someone's phone via SMS?

Michael Leung

nice

cheese3915

...or you could add about the same amount of $$ onto your existing plan and go crackberry/iphone/smartphone.

and carry one device instead of this thing + a cell phone.

thinking about this makes my head hurt.

WHY???

honozooloo

@James D: 3! I didn't even catch that. Alright, this is fail for me.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@Michael Leung: Teleflip.

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Dakota Courtois

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: its a little expensive, I agree

redspectre

@cheese3915: eh?

redspectre

That thing gadget of the year? are you kidding me.

snitch29

I love it, it's cute an simple. But... Cell phone probably 30-40 bucks a month cheap. Then the peek, add $20. So... you're already at $60 for peek plus phone. Isn't the minimum iphone plan $60 or something?

SamCity

Yes, I'm pretty sure they made sent out a chain letter on facebook claiming that if they don't give this device a 10 rating, the owner of fb will shut the site down. College students have a lot of time while they're in class "taking notes" lol.

ahm3d3sa

@Dakota Courtois: YES! That's the one I was thinking about.

Michael Leung

@snitch29: Makes you wonder how much they paid. Um, I mean, how much advertising they bought.

USB_Humping_Dog

@Michael Leung: MetroPCs phones can do that, and they can receive e-mail's sent to their number.

Jkoenig96

@James D: It supports large variety of hosts and they'll work with you (over the phone) to set up anything that supports POP or IMAP (but not exchange).

morcheeba

it's a cute idea, but i'm in with a blackberry, 600 anytime minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, insurance, internet, texting and email (and hopefully, tethering and/or navi the next time i re-up my contract) for $27 a month. so, the peek would be a lot less bang for only a little less buck.

but i'm sure there's someone out there who only texts and doesn't make phone calls, and this would be a sweet money saver for that person.

rimplestultskin needs an aluminum macbook

Wait a sec, if a Peek user texts a cell phone user via email wouldnt this feature already been enabled? Why is Peek acting like they're adding something that was never there?

pdditty

@redspectre: Can you even purchase pagers anymore?
And ye it is quite expensive.

AznSlackerType

@rimplestultskin needs an aluminum macbook: all that for $27/month?

pdditty

@AznSlackerType: My company has them, they give them to people like me that don't answer their cell phones.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@pdditty: For real. How is that even possible?

ericisshort

@snitch29: Time internet lists are notoriously unreliable because of all of the viral campaigning that some companies will do just to get the title.

ericisshort

@AznSlackerType: Doctors use them all the time.

ericisshort

@pdditty: It just makes it easier rather than having to remember each carrier's email-to-SMS gateway.

Instead of @vtext.com, @txt.att.net, and so on, you email the number to another email address that can determine (or, well, tries to determine) the carrier for you so you don't have to remember the SMS gateways.

But luckily for me I only have two to remember for the two monopolized carriers where I live.

Dakota Courtois

this is exactly what i do with my iphone. i send my texts through my yahoo email account because yahoo has push email and the "texts" come straight to me. and it's free.

socceryo3

yeah seriously. why have an email device, a phone, a mp3 player and whatever else if your pockets? just buy a smartphone and consolidate already!

kellygeorge

@pdditty: it's called getting, erm, friendly with sprint's customer retention and "customer services escalation" teams.
that, and having a monster-sized family plan, so even with the crazy discounts per line, sprint is still making good money on the whole plan.

although it requires re-inking my contract waaaaay more often than every 2 years. so if i want to get a contract subsidy on a new phone (like, say, when the bold is released on sprint), it's more likely than not gonna be no dice for me.

customer retention will do anything to get you to re-ink. they'll probably vote for your choice of presidential candidate, and arrange for hookers to pick you up at the airport the next time you fly to a place where prostitution is legal, if you give them an ultimatum, and know how to talk to them.

rimplestultskin needs an aluminum macbook