Nov-07-2009The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
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CONTENTS:SOURCESFIND OUT MORE ON THIS SUBJECTMost of our concerns with the device are in line with this one -- too many steps or too much lag for far too little of a reward. This is, after all, Twitter we're talking about. Do you really want to carry around an entirely separate device meant to do one thing and one thing alone that still doesn't really work that well? This should be the ultimate Twittering device, but much of its operation feels like an afterthought. On the plus side, actually tweeting and replying to direct messages on this thing is pretty enjoyable, largely because of the Peek's solid hardware and comfortable keyboard. We'd argue that the pricing seems fair -- $99 for six months of service, or $199 for lifetime use -- but it's hard to call it a value when the TwitterPeek doesn't seem like a very good or well executed idea. The question is ultimately whether or not this device is worth the money you'd spend on it.
[1] The creators of Peek, a mobile email device, are releasing a purpose-built device designed solely for use with Twitter. TwitterPeek, which retails for $99, lets users manage their Twitter account and keep track of tweets through a dedicated mobile platform.
[2] Twitter has always greatly focused on the third-party environment. The website itself gets its fair share of attention, but the company has always envisioned itself as just a service provider and, as such, has made sure that all manners of third-party apps and devices are being catered to with the APIs and access to the data. Another core focus for the company has been from the get-go the mobile space and Twitter is once again investing its attention on this part of the business, this time with a dedicated Twitter device designed for tweeting and nothing else called TwitterPeek.
[3] Every single modern-ish phone is capable of tweeting, and some are exceptionally good at it (Tweetie 2 anyone?). This device should be the god of tweeting, but it's subpar. This, my friends, is an epic fail. @Gabe, perhaps it's not the phone, but the cost of phone plans. This is great for people who can't afford an extra $30 tacked on to their monthly phone bill for texting or data plans that you need for twitter. I've never been able to afford such plans because I'm attending college full time and I am very attracted to the flat $200 cost for free tweets for the lifetime of the device.
[1] Technically you can use SMS on a regular phone, but it'''s really not the same. Most Twitter users are stuck using the web ''' and they'''re missing out,''' Peek, the company that designed and manufactured the device, said. '''TwitterPeek is designed to make it affordable for people of all ages and walks of life to take the world of Twitter with them wherever they go.
[3] Once we started getting updates, things seemed fine, but there were a few issues that made using the device less than pleasant. The TwitterPeek essentially presents a stream of Tweets as if they were the subject lines of emails, so when a new Tweet shows up in your updates, you don't just read it -- because it's been truncated. That's right, the Twitter Peek truncates a 140 character message down to about 26, as far as we can tell. Now, this is obviously done to conserve space and retain the "stream" effect of Twitter, allowing you to see a pile of tweets on the screen at once.
[1] I do have an unlimited text plan and I use it with twitter, but even if I didn't, I couldn't see using 3 devices: 1 for calls, 1 for email and 1 for tweets like that. It's a ridiculous tool for such an unnecessary service. I bet this review would have gone a lot better if you'd had a cute Asian model holding the new Peek. just saying. It's counter-productive.
[1] If it is too slow for Twitter of all things, it will be too slow for everything. Dllrrs 200? Who are they kidding? I bought my HTC Magic for 200 ''', brand new, without contract (and pay 24 cents per MB. might go for an unlimited data plan though. 8,50 ''' a month for unlimited data, allowing Skype and VoIP).
[1] The new device, available at Amazon.com, will cost $99 and include unlimited nationwide service for the first 6 months, which jumps to $7.95 per month for service thereafter.
[4] The device retails for $99 with a $7.95 monthly fee or $200 with a lifetime service.
[3] First up is
San Francisco-based Peek's TwitterPeek, a device built exclusively to read and post messages to the Twitter microblogging service. The TwitterPeek was released Tuesday and it's available exclusively from Amazon.com.
[5] Regardless, setup -- as you might imagine -- is relatively foolproof (basically just a matter of plugging in your Twitter account details). We should note that while we could tweet right away as well as access our list of followers and those we follow, it took about an hour and two restarts to get the TwitterPeek to populate with our feed. It's seems a bit ironic to us that a device which is supposedly geared towards the always-on, non-stop chatter of the Twitterverse would take 45 minutes to show you your friends latest messages.
[1] The TwitterPeek as it is called, has a dedicated colour screen, and is a QWERTY keyboard sporting device that allows users to dump their smartphones, email and phone calls and just check their Twitter stream regardless of what they are doing.
[4] Last year, amid snickering and cries of uselessness from the gadget world, the tiny company launched an email-only handheld that's attempted to bring the idea of email on the go to the smartphone fearing crowd. and we do know at least one avid user. Now the company has turned around and tried it again, this time with a seemingly even less essential device, the
TwitterPeek.
[1] Although the U.S. editor for Econsultancy, Meghan Keane, says TwitterPeek "works better as a mobile marketing device than a smartphone," the mobile marketing community for now at least appears reluctant to embrace the device as a tool rather than a toy.
[6] While there are few doubts that the advent of social media has done anything but help mobile marketing, there are some concerns that the new TwitterPeek device (a handset designed especially for use with Twitter) might be more of a dud than a stud when it comes to assisting mobile marketers.
[6] Twitter had always been a huge fan of the mobile aspect of the service, so, several months ago, the company started looking for a manufacturer to make for it a Twitter-centric device that would be able to send and receive tweets on the go while running a fully featured Twitter client.
[3] There's nothing else to figure out or set up, so presumably, the idea is that the device, like the
original Peek, is intended for the dumbphone lover who just can't go without a constant stream of Tweets. Fair enough -- those of us who are more than a little tech savvy may find reason to smile at this, but supposedly this will be attractive to someone.
[1] There is a way to quickly move through tweets one at a time using keyboard shortcuts (like jumping through messages in Gmail), but you can only see one update per page -- not really that useful when you follow lots of people.
[1] Using the device's small keyboard, you can compose 140 character messages and follow your friends and associates on the popular social networking service. That's about all you can do.
[6] Message In A Handset With the gift-buying season fast approaching, makers of handsets and smartphones outdid themselves this week, rolling out several new devices for the got-to-have-it-now crowd.
[5] Unless you have an expensive smartphone and data plan it'''s hard to really experience Twitter on-the-go.
[3] Of course, most smartphones have dedicated, and free, Twitter apps that, in most cases, are at least as good as the TwitterPeek.
[3] TwitterPeek is nothing but the Pronto refitted to be a dedicated Twitter client rather than an email one.
[3] The TwitterPeek device, which is solely built around Twitter, does exactly what you would expect from it.
[6] Peek could release small little apps for multiple sites. That way when Twitter becomes obsolete your device still has some use.
[1] The company eventually got in contact with Peek, a startup that makes an affordable email device, the Peek Pronto.
[3] I would have expected this to have been added in to the email Peek device not as a separate device.
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Maybe the people that can't spend $30 a month on a phone plan should stop tweeting and get a job? Sorry if you have a real reason to not pay for it but even in college with no help from mommy and daddy i was able to have plenty of extra money around to go to the bar and whatnot, $30 a month is one night out on the town. [1] We have been seeing the onset of mobile phones that can do near everything, all in one device.
[1] If you twitter so much that you need a dedicated device, you have a problem.
[1] SOURCES1.
TwitterPeek review2.
EcontentMag.com: Twitter Introduces Dedicated Mobile Device3.
TwitterPeek, a Mobile Device Exclusively Dedicated to Twitter | Ethiopian News - EthioPlanet.com, Ethiopian Politics, Entertainment, Ethiopia4.
TwitterPeek UK bound?5.
Hot New Handsets For The Holidays6.
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