Peek announces the Pronto as RIM giggles like a schoolgirl
You remember Peek, don’t you? Well the company is back and confident yet again that it’s going to take the world by storm with the new Peek Pronto. Retailing for $79.95, the Pronto ups the ante from its past offering by allowing users to manage up to five email accounts with push and support for PDFs, DOCs and pictures on a device with a full-QWERTY keypad, 8MB of internal memory and a 2.5″ QVGA 65,000-color display. As with the original Peek, the Pronto runs contract-free on T-Mobile’s GPRS network for $19.95 per month, which not only includes unlimited email but also unlimited text messages via an email gateway. So will the Pronto take off like its predecessor never did? Who knows, but one thing is for sure — if the new Peek Pronto is named Time Gadget of the Year, we might have to close up shop.
Have to check in on the lifetime subscription. Thanks for the heads up.
Hey guys I totally agree Bold FTW! Lol. But really the companies that come out with these devices need to look at the overall picture. Companies for the most part aim for niche products and thos that do well survive but those that put out stuff like this. Eh. Could be the new netbook revolution lmao jk. Have a nice one guys
LOL EPIC FAIL.
Sooooo what this tells me is….
TIME subscribers have no idea what a BlackBerry is.
sad that.
Good thing it doesn’t have a browser…it could have been a serious competitor.
@tande04
No way Soccer moms. Soccer moms have blackberry thumb from using blackberry’s. I know about 20 soccer moms including my own. They are very non-gadgety ?? is that a word? They like to have either A) Their iPhone all in one, wonder Or B) Their Blackberry and armband strapped iPod nano. (my storm will play mp3’s but the doesn’t mean I use it)Plus they text to phone numbers (their own) not an email gateway. For $20/mo they can have Email on their phone. I can’t see anyone buying and using this device unless they have no cred for a mobile account or like to have a little anonymity in their pocket. I will never know anyone to have this device.
@ Chuong
I agree.
I do not know if Verizon even has an unlimited text package. My phones service is company owned but I know they pay $10/mo for my text package that gives me 2000 messages I think..
Well, it’s an idea, but that looks like one uncomfortable keyboard…
I don’t know why there’s so much negativity about this product. I just bought it for my dad who loves it. I don’t know what their target demographic is but my dad is in his 60s and is definitely not into gadgets, tech, etc. (he still uses a typewriter to do his invoicing). He likes his simplistic cell phone and doesn’t want to deal with carrying a laptop around. Most of the people reading this site would probably have no use for a Peek (or the Pronto) but for others that don’t want to pay $30 a months when they only need to be able to have email on the go this thing is great. Additionally, everyone that is comparing Peek’s $19.99 a month to other providers hasn’t actually thought about how this breaks down. The $19.99 is exactly what shows up on your credit card statement — no additional fees, taxes, etc. As for the post about how this device looks huge…maybe you were looking at a blown up display model because it’s about the same size as a Blackberry and maybe even a little slimmer. Sorry for the rant but it seems like there are a lot of “reviews” on here about this thing by no one that has actually used it.
I came to this site expecting to see reviews from actual Peek users. All I see here are negative reactions to a gadget they don’t even own. There’s no dispute that Blackberry and Iphone are way ahead of this low end gadget. The truth is I never really browse the net on my blackberry. I text, read email and talk. This gadget will be perfect for me, change my Blackberry to a regular phone still get my email be able to text. Pay half the bill I’m paying now less the tons of surcharges for data and phone use. This is perfect for people who can’t afford a cell contract.