By this point, it’s a good bet we all know someone who cant bear to be away from microblogging Twitter for more than a 10 minutes at a time, either checking in on tweets from their friends and followers or chomping at the bit to send out tweets of their own about such earth-shattering topics as breakfast cereal and the funny-looking shoes you-know-who is wearing today. Although darn near every smartphone platform sports a Twitter client, smartphones (and their service plans) aren’t within everyone’s budget. Wouldn’t it be cool if there were a simple device that did nothing but Twitter…and maybe (thinking of parents here) didn’t have all the hazards and complications of a phone?
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Peek: The $100 E-mail-Only Device
Smartphones may be all about piling every feature possible into one device these days, but one manufacturer seems to be running against that tide with a new mobile device that does just one thing: e-mail. Call it a unitasker or divergence device if must, but the upcoming Peek has no voice capability, text-messaging or even a basic media player – all it does is send and receive e-mails.
Peek’s e-mail-only device is simply a slim rectangular block with a screen and QWERTY keyboard that can be configured to interface with just about any e-mail service, from your ISP’s POP mail to free accounts like Gmail and Hotmail. The founders of the company have one only goal: build a device that only does one thing, really, really well.
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