Peek Email Device is the top gadget of 2008?
The upset of the year is not happening on the ice or the gridirons, instead it is happening over at Time’s website. Believe it or not but a poll over at Time.com has the Peek Email device leading the list as the top gadget of 2008. Not the sleek Flip Mino portable video camcorder, the iPod Touch, the MacBook, or the many other fantastic products that are among Time’s options, it is the Peek that is the fave amongst the Time respondents. You remember the Peek. It is that email only device that runs on T-Mobile’s EDGE network and provides unlimited email access for $20 per month. It is not just slightly ahead of the competition either. It is mopping the floor with them, garnering almost as many votes as the iPod Touch and the MacBook combined. We’re going to reserve comment on this one and turn it over to you readers. What do think? Is the Peek really the gadget of the year or this a case of some wild online ballot stuffing? Chime in and let us know if the Peek’s rightful place is atop Time’s list, or if Time readers are crazy and the Peek belongs somewhere back around 1998.
[Thanks, Horatio!]
Thanks, Jake!
Actually you can use it to send sms too! They just added the feature last week!!!
The “some people don’t wanna spend $100 on a cellphone/data plan” argument exceptionally illogical.
Soooo… what you’re saying is… Why should anyone pay $50 for cellular + $25 for data when they could keep their $50 cellular and pay $20 for Peek… wait- What?
Ok, so really, price point is not an issue. Peek is not going to make your wallet heavier due to spending less money.
I guess you could argue there might be people who don’t want a cell but want email… but how many could that be? Certainly not enough to make this device successful.
I saw the Peek the other day at Target and it looked like a toy. Rather pointless.
Well, other than business usage. I can see businesses using this over issuing Blackberries to save money. When you’re talking about buying Blackberries for hundreds of employees, then I can see the value of something like Peek.
do you have to pay extra for sms?
I don’t know about the Peek being the Gadget of the year but its nice for someone with a Metro or a Cricket Phone, you know one of those 45$ a month talk all you want phones but useless for a blackberry user. Although its not intended for the tech types and with that understood it may be gadget of the year…. Naw somebody stuffed the ballot box! I don’t know about googling and smsing from that bad boy as the peek doesn’t have a web browser. But it would be much more useful if the peek would allow for text messaging and unlimited at that for 20$ a month then I’d get one. Unlimited Email and text messaging on a Peek for 20$ would be AWESOME then, and I see no reson why it shouldn’t be able to do that now… Jus Say’n.
I guess not everyone who uses gadgets are those on BGR or those who only focus on phones…if the Peek wins then it wins…it’s great for what it is and for people who use it. I’d put the Zune as gadget of the year but that’s because it is great for what it is and for the features i need it for, same here.
Nope! You have to do 10digitnumber@cell.getpeek.net
They keep rolling out features. They announce it on their sites blog.
These were awesome devices… When they came out in the year 2000… When they were called BLACKBERRIES….
seriously WTF.
You know I was just in Target and I saw this stupid device. I laughed and did not think much of it. I mean anyone who needs to access their email probably already have a phone that can do that. And there is plenty of phones that can do that.
So my question is: Who is the target market for this device? I just do not see too many people purchasing it.
Bought one for my girlfriend and she seems to like it fine. Obviously, we aren’t the target market for this thing, that’s the whole point! I was even thinking of getting my mom one!
They’re cheap, easy to use, customer service is amazing. I think it’s a home run.
Although I think my iphone 3g deserves gadget of the year.
It’s VOTING FRAUD! Take a look at the e-mail I just got from an old business acquaintance:
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Hi,
We’ve been chosen to be one of the top 10 TIME Gadgets of the year, and with your help, we could make it to #1. We started at #7, and are already at #3. So there is hope.
*Really important* – please don’t forget to rank us (from 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest). By default, the ranking is set to 5, but if you notice, the ranking is even more important than the # of votes. We’re rated #3 right now, and have less votes than other devices in the top 10 list.
Here is the link to the Eye-Fi Explore voting page:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1852747_1852746_1852740,00.html
It’s an honor to be among the other 9 devices, all of which are made by much larger companies than Eye-Fi.
THANKS A LOT
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Rich
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True that!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!
I’m willing to bet *anything* that the sales numbers totally contradict this honor. I cannot think of a realistic target market. I guess if there is one we can expect RIM to come out with a “classic” line of devices with color screens & limited but superior funtionality. Device would be free , plans would be cheap ($15-20) and it would include SMS/MMS & (device only) data/browser.
I guess we’ll see…
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you can also sign up to enter a chance to win a free peek!