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The Only Non-Negative Review of the TwitterPeek

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

The new TwitterPeek is getting widely panned right now, including by my friends Kim LaCapria over at Inquisitr as well as fellow ANGLEr, Sean P. Aune.

Sean posted on one of his blogs, StarterTech, rounding up the history of the Peek and what’s new with the TwitterPeek:

Peek is a mobile device company that seems to specialize in devices for people that have never explored the capabilities of their cell phones. The first device from the company, simply called Peek, was a device dedicated to delivering only emails to you. They branded it as a way to save $100’s over buying a smart phone, lower monthly plans, etc, etc. The problem is that it is another device to carry around with you, and even non-smartphone options are beginning to offer email capabilities. It was pretty much of a joke device, but yet it must have had some success because it has now spawned the TwitterPeek.

The TwitterPeek uses the exact same body as the original Peek (i.e. massive cost cutting), but all this device does is Twitter. Look, we love Twitter around here, but the idea of a device

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