The Peek has been around for a year already and surprise, surprise, it’s still around. In fact, you can now snag one without a monthly subscription charge for $299 exclusively from Amazon. Now, I’m not saying you should spend $299 on a device that just does email now that smartphone’s monthly subscription costs are dropping, but someone out there might want a dedicated device for email, Twitter, and Facebook.
The deal has two options: either you can get the Peek Pronto with one year of service for $229 or spend $299 for the handheld with the lifetime service plan. Generally you have to buy the Peek for $60 and then spend another $14.99 a month on the service. So if you’re eying the device, it would only make sense to spend the extra hundred bones and get the lifetime service plan if you plan on keeping it more than a year and a half.
Update: Target has the classic, non-Twitter’n , non-Facebook’n version for only $15 bucks. Just saying.
I like these a lot because I don’t ever use calling, but I thought about it, and I decided that I’d rather get a Kindle as you can basically do the same thing correct?
But you can’t fit a Kindle in your back pocket.
You can use the classic version to Twitter and Facebook update if you use it with Ping.fm
I’m thinking about getting this. I have been for the past few hours, but not 100% just yet. I’ll looking into it some more but would love something like this to go along with my google Voice on my iPhone (I still have the VoiceCentral App before Apple banned it). It would really come in handy for me. http://ZiggyTek.com/
Is it capable of going DIRECTLY to the mail source or does it proxy through peek? ie does lifetime mean the wireless carrier will permit it lifetime even after PEEK as a company goes away or does it mean the lifetime of PEEK ?
also its $350 not $300 you see if you lose or break that peek you CAN NOT transfer the service to another peek after the first year unless you buy there insurance for $50 (which thankfully is one time and lifetime)
Pretty shady. it should not be an issue to move service to another peek device.