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the sim card is removable with a little case prying!

now if we can get a browser loaded onto that thing...]]>Nov 4th 2008 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.geekypeek.com/
Here are some pictures of the insides: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8728129@N05/sets/72157607274454694/
I checked the USB port... it's connected electrically, but peek's software doesn't enable it yet. It might be possible to use the omap bootrom's usb driver code, but I haven't been able to enable the usb-boot mode yet.]]>Nov 4th 2008 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
You forgot to mention we threw in free unlimited texting. We're craaaaaazy!

That craziness also explains why we did the promotional price (plus a free $10 Target gift card) this week at Target.... watching Oprah give away Kindles on repeat will do that to you.]]>Nov 5th 2008 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/This is at least 7 or 8 years too late to sell.]]>Nov 4th 2008 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
This is why we need simple dedicated devices, touch screen computers with simplified UI... you know...
touch the MAIL icon for e-mail
touch the cloud icon for the weather
and so on...]]>Nov 4th 2008 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
The next generation of Grandparents would be my parents, the 60-somethings. Both of them already have both standard e-mail access and mobile e-mail access, and frankly have no problem looking up the weather on http://www.wunderground.com.

The only real possibly decent market I could see for this is #1, emerging margets, or maybe #2, my 7 year old with her own g-mail account. I did however think that this would have been a neat corporate device. You get a new job in a big corporation, you get one of these. Works on WiFi in the building, and normal over the air otherwise. Allows faster communication where necessary. Too-bad.]]>Nov 4th 2008 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
Easy? Tell me then hoe to use my pop account, that I have on my own domain, or yahoo.dk...]]>Nov 4th 2008 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
]]>Nov 4th 2008 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/How about teaching your grand parents how to use new tech? My granny took a course last year. I gave her an old notebook. This christmas she will be getting an internet connection and and a scanner. She will scan her old photos and upload them to picasa for the whole family to see. She is 82.]]>Nov 4th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
iEye: weeeeak rationale. bush league.]]>Nov 4th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
Easy? Tell me then, hoe; to use my pop account that I have on my own domain...

A world of difference. :-)]]>Nov 4th 2008 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Send me your address and lets see if a coke can survive air mail from Denmark ;-)]]>Nov 4th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/I could also stick a pencil in my eye...]]>Nov 4th 2008 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
That said, I don't think there's a market. Being a good product is one piece of the puzzle, the other is finding a niche or un-exploited market. You have to time your arrival. The handheld email market has been exploited for all it's got. There's nothing to add. RIM's already made the fortune (email is pretty much the oxygen of the blackberry).]]>Nov 4th 2008 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
Well Said.
The only comment you need to read.
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Some may remember that in the earliest days of the Blackberry, this is pretty much *exactly* what the Blackberry was... A dedicated pager/e-mail device with no other capabilities. Of course, we didn't have evolved cellular data networks in those days, so the BB ran on a proprietary "Mobitex" network, but it was definitely an early attempt at providing handheld e-mail for corporate users.

As the technology evolved, so did the Blackberry. Surely if there had still been *that* much demand for e-mail only devices, RIM themselves would have kept making them. However, it became pretty clear that the demand was for integration.... carrying fewer devices that do more things by themselves.

The world has moved well beyond dedicated e-mail devices. I'm not suggesting that there's not a niche for *better* e-mail capabilities on existing smartphones (most are pretty bad at e-mail), but I really don't think that there's much of a market for *dedicated* devices that do nothing but e-mail unless the price was dramatically lower than your average basic-cellphone-with-data-plan -- pricing that I suspect would not be sustainable.

For the older generation that doesn't want handheld e-mail, I'd imagine that a full-featured Kindle e-mail client would probably be a much better fit than a dedicated device, but even then the pricing would have to be so low that there would be no point in somebody just getting a free cell phone with a basic plan.


]]>Nov 4th 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
Nice move, but IMO it won't help. This thing is just... useless.]]>Nov 4th 2008 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 4th 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/They might have to just give up and sell the UI or something, it could even run with their proprietary servers or something but it'd have to be a lot cheaper than $20 lol.]]>Nov 5th 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Nov 5th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/
I hate using a cellphone. I rarely find a good use for having one. Although I am at the running screaming opposite end of being a Luddite, I've grown tired of having people be mad because I didn't answer their phone call or text immediately. I've got a home phone that gives me unlimited nationwide, and if not, I'd have skype. I don't want to be tied to a cell phone any longer, and this is the perfect device.

I can communicate with any via text messaging if I need to, and if its an emergency, well, people existed for thousands of years without a cell phone, I think I'll be okay.

I understand that I can get cricket for $34.99/month, but I don't want the cell phone availability. Everyone I communicate with texts anyway, so I can still keep in touch.

I've already got an mp3 player, and there's no camera that can take a picture worth a damn that comes with a cellphone/smartphone/blackberry. Get off it. It's not a necessity to have everything in one device. Sure, it's convenient, but is there a cell phone that has a quality audio chip that can properly drive good headphones? No. Can you find a cell phone that can let you do HDR images, or take something that at least comes a little close to film? No. So, for those people out there that do seek out devices that do things the best, this might be a perfect solution.

I use a dSLR, actually, a rangefinder, with Leica and Zeiss Lenses.
I use a Zune, modified, with the Wolfsun chipset, and a headphone amp to listen to music. The headphones range from Shure IEMs to B&O headphones, to high end Sennheiser phones.
And if I'm dying so so much for full web browsing on the go, I have a small laptop.
All of this, including a 70-300mm Zuiko Lense fits in a bag about the size of a large woman's purse.

Sometimes "well enough" just isn't good enough.]]>Nov 15th 2008 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/peek-email-only-handheld-already-discounted-20/Jan 12th 2009 5:20PM