With the new Peek Pronto supporting unlimited SMS, the company will be cutting SMS out of new Peek Classics entirely. Luckily, those of you who already own Peek Classics will be allowed to keep your SMS (the company is not pulling any services retroactively). Seems like a fair enough way of handling the situation. [SlashGear]
The heavily rumoured Peek Pronto has become official. The successor to the $US50, one-trick-pony Peek emailer, the $US80 Pronto promises full push email for up to five email accounts.
The veil around the Peek Pronto is falling away: It’s “much, much faster in every way possible” than the original Peek. Load times cut in half. Maybe there’s 3G too?
Spotted in the wild, this Peek appears to be running a maps app. Whether it’s a creative hack or a sign of things to come, the Peek might soon do more than just one thing.
Now you see it, now you don’t: This teaser for the Peek Pronto was up briefly, sent by a reader, but it’s gone now. Mysterious! Except that URL pretty much explains it all: “Peek for Business.”
The proudly specific Peek email/texting device is on sale today for an all-inclusive $US300, which covers lifetime service (normally $US20 and month) and the handset (normally $US100). Not bad for Time‘s Gadget of the Year.
Wow, it’s like the longer you wait, the better the deals for the Peek email-on-the-go handheld get. First, there was the price drop to $80; then, unlimited texting. Now the company is offering to pay you entire November iPhone or G1 bill (up to $US150), if you buy two peeks (one for you, and one for a friend) at getpeek.com before Monday, December 1. That means those of you with astronomically high phone bills could technically get two of them for a Hamilton. (AU: Obviously US only, but a novel marketing idea that I thought you guys might like to know about…)[Peek]
The Peek handheld, recently named the Time’s best gadget of 2008, has now gotten even better with two added features. While we knew unlimited text messaging was already coming to the device, it’s a pleasant surprise to find out it can now view images too. Peek will show .JPG, .GIF, .PNG and .BMP file formats when you click the “View Image” option. Considering its price drop to $US80, this little gadget’s becoming a better deal day by day. [
The surprisingly well-liked cheap Peek e-mail handheld is ready for pre-order on its own site, at US$100, plus unlimited use on T-Mobile for US$20/month. It may be low-fi, but anything that works consistently well doing a straightforward but important task for a fairly low price has a place at my table. The only catch is—and I know you’re gonna be pissed—you can’t get it in Aqua Blue or Cherry. Whether they’re sold out (as the company claims) or not in stock (the likelier story), you are out of luck. If you want one now, you gotta get Charcoal Grey. [Peek via Electronista]