How would you change the TwitterPeek?
By Darren Murph 
posted December 25th 2009 11:12PM
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Say, you know what I'd probably move that amazing app over to mobiles, or even all computers - hey what about everything that has a browser!
..oh wait...
I'd remove the W so it was Titter Peak, and all it did was show random breasts.
Make it so it doesn't exist!
stop it from existing.
@Tristan88888888
What's ypour problem with it existing? Drawing away attention from your golden iphone? you sure are a flexible person aren't you.
@Wwhat
it has nothing to do with the iphone. it has to do with phones in general. so many phones have twitter support. why the fuck do you need another device, just to do twitter. it is such a waste of money. email peek made some sense, but this one does not.
Yeah but why does it have to stop existing? If nobody bought it it would not exists, but it does, so why begrudge people that want it to have it?
Sorry that I picked you to go at btw, I know many say the same thing in their posts, but hey the first time it's an amusing dismissal but after a while it just seems so nasty to not want a device to exist simply because someone doesn't want it him/herself.
@Wwhat
yeah but this thing has to be the biggest niche market ive ever seen for a device. who in the world depends on twitter enough that it requires a seperate, phone sized gadget in their pockets. my point is, this device was not a smart investment, not for peek or for consumers who actually buy this.
These peek devices are so ridiculous it's almost hard to believe that they actually exist. In the day and age of the iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, etc...why would anyone want a device that can only perform one task and one task only?
Ask apple with their no-multitask phone concept, they seem to have an answer.
@Wwhat Granted I get your joke, no matter how played out it may be. Reread my statement, at least the iPhone can do many different things. I just don't see how the people over at peek(Though isn't it the idea of one man?), would think that a product designed to do only task would sell. I guess I'm just not their market, if they even have one.
@XChrisX
Glad you got that it wasn't so serious but a joke :)
Although there's a point too, why does brand x not do y, every single device has such an issue IMO, and at the same time many people also get annoyed if something does too much, tries to fuse too many function, and if you aren't into smartphones and apps and stuff you might get annoyed at something like a iphone or a droid and scream out "I just want to email/twitter dammit"
There's a reason why google has a policy of limiting the number of items on the searchpage had success, and why apple limits things and tried to keep things simple and tied down to that, because most people once they get too much hassle from something will give up to avoid the frustration.
Include a free sledgehammer with every purchase to save people a trip to the hardware store.
Twitter Peek? Is that like the Playboy version of Twitter?
A lot of information towards the top needs to be displayed in a different way. Like the message icon on the top left. The battery life and wifi signal could be displayed off the screen through a small backlight. It doesn't really need to say Twitter so big. If you would be using this you just spent $200 or so on something that just does Twitter, I'm pretty sure you know that already. Bind one of the keys to a pop up menu to display the date, time and a home function. Wala! You have a ton more real estate on the screen to work with.
> CHANGE THE NAME
> ADD MORE PIXELS TO THE DISPLAY
> BETTER INTERFACE
> LET IT DO MORE FUNCTIONS, LIKE MAYBE FACEBOOK OR SKYPE
> ADD 2 CAMERAS FOR TAKING PICS/ VIDEO & THE OTHER ONE FOR SELF PORTRAITS AND ONLINE VIDEO CONVERSATION ETC.
How about an Engadget blog for tweens that featured stuff like this?
What about the "MySpace Peek," or the "facebook peek," or the "YouTube Peek...." JEEZE!! How many Peeks am I going to have to tote around?!?!?!
Blowing it up is the only sensible thing to do.
I'd make it smaller with a glass touchscreen and a silver apple logo on the back. Does anyone actually use this thing? It seems like something straight out of 1995.
You Can't Change The TwitterPeak it's like a piece of crap you can move it & through it around but it's still crap
Um...by a cell phone? Or maybe an ipod touch? or how about a zune hd? Oh i give up, just try and mod it to make something useful out of it.
I would make it useful.
How about a pop-up that appears every time someone makes a "tweet" that says: "Get a real fucking life and do something actually productive for the love of God."
I'd take out all the Twitter and add a browser and IM support. I've liked the Peek's hardware since I first saw it, but I have never wanted a device that only did email. One that only does Twitter is even less desirable.
If this is going to be purely a twitter device, it has to be the best twitter device out there. It should support location, all popular twitter picture services, lists, and a small mobile browser.
The only exciting thing I can think of that Peek could make is a web-browsing and email device that's significantly cheaper than an iPod touch.
I would make it not exist any longer.
Toss it, we don't need another choice in gadgets, especially if it's worthless. (It's after Christmas, I can be mean again ha ha ha!)
It irks me so ! It's a piece of ****. Whoever buys it was probably tricked or didn't know every other gadget and it's mother can access Twitter better!
I would make a partial development kit available for limited software customization. Bearing in mind this quote: "While our customers pay a flat rate for unlimited data, we pay on a per usage basis with the carrier so we are protective for now as we’re a poor start-up," you could try something like this: "Applications may consume up to 2x a standard threshold that approximates average peek product usage without penalty; applications will be throttled to 4x max server usage - this will be considered abusive. Abusive applications will invalidate peek server support after 3 contiguous abusive months or any 6 abusive months in a calendar year; some successful applications might be accepted by peek and allowed in a controlled marketplace and given extra usage rights." Hardware modifications to the peek device and also some but not all attached external devices can void the product warranty and in some cases also result in server banning; acceptable attached devices might be recognized on a case by case basis.
Wifi communication that does not utilize the company servers is allowed in many cases unless it has questionable legality or is an end-around attempt to overuse our servers.
I got the peek for xmas. they said it was cool. i said u think im stupid?
So... I THREW IT ON THE GROUND!
I neglected to add that the first application that I think it should support would be allowing the exact function of each Peek device but with tethering using that special Peek usb/serial cable. So notebooks, other devices, and even stationary desktops could cheaply function as if they had wifi available, anywhere a Peek has coverage albeit possibly limited to functions that the Peek itself does.
I would buy one if it had a self destruct button for the MSRP these things go for. I think an iPhone, Black Berry, Andriod even my old POS RAZR can do that without a problem!
make it able to read/write engadget comments...
Destroy it.
Sandwich-making capabilities.
i would uh remove all of the parts except the keyboard
Take it off market.
Everyone wants the stuff "off the market". What the fuck, if you don't want it, it doesn't have to leave the market.
Have to say, the true purpose of the Peek line is very clear. However, I really don't know what kind of people is buying this thing. However, if they would release a Peek that does mail, FaceBook and Twitter, I would be interested. But more as gimmick I guess.
You guys crack me up!... AHAHAHAHAHA...
But seriously... I would make it a dedicated web-browsing device, that had full Flash support and support for every other protocol out there... if you wanted to check your email, you would type in the site's URL and check your html mail... if you wanted to use Twitter you could do that... I think if there was a device that only did web-browsing, I could possibly see myself discontinuing my cell phone and getting a land-line, IF I had a mobile web-browsing device...
BUT, after all this is PEEK we're talking about here... makers of the infamous Peek for email and Twitter-Peek and the Peek Pronto which can do some sort of hacked text-messaging... What a joke!... Either have an all-in-one device minus calling capability (AKA cellphone) or nothing at all!...
I liked some of your guys' ideas such as: FacebookPeek, MyspacePeek, MSNPeek, GooglePeek, Y!Peek... or a web-browser that can only go to one website, OR a Peek that can only call one number(!)... LUV IT
Anyways, I agree with everyone else...
TWITTERPEEK = EPIC FAIL
Combine the two Peeks, add 3G WAP browsing and make it $50 with $10/mth unlimited service.
Open it. That'll get massive publicity and the already-decent user base will begin producing applications right away, especially if peek hands down a nice sdk.
id get rid of this thing and give the poor saps who bought this thing their money back and direct them to the closest smartphone store
btw who's idea was this again because this thing deserves and award for the most useless and most annoying device with a color screen
i would include a hammer so you could smash it
I would give it a big hug and explain that not everyone can be the best, and that it's ok to be different.
When it was calmed down and taking a nap, I would quietly take myself outside and burn the house down.