Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[TwitterPeek review]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/twitterpeek-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/twitterpeek-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/twitterpeek-review/#comments Peek is a company with ideas -- but they like to tackle them one at a time. Last year, amid snickering and cries of uselessness from the gadget world, the tiny company launched an email-only handheld that's attempted to bring the idea of email on the go to the smartphone fearing crowd... and we do know at least one avid user. Now the company has turned around and tried it again, this time with a seemingly even less essential device, the TwitterPeek.

The TwitterPeek works in conjunction with Twitter, and only with Twitter. It's that simple. There's nothing else to figure out or set up, so presumably, the idea is that the device, like the original Peek, is intended for the dumbphone lover who just can't go without a constant stream of Tweets. So, fair enough -- those of us who are more than a little tech savvy may find reason to smile at this, but supposedly this will be attractive to someone. Right?

So how did the TwitterPeek fare when we got our mitts on it? Read on to find out.

Gallery: TwitterPeek hands-on

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TwitterPeek review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>featurefeaturedfeatureshandheldhandheldshands-onpeekreviewreviewstwittertwitter peektwitterpeekThu, 05 Nov 2009 15:19:00 EST<![CDATA[The TwitterPeek is... a Peek for Twitter?]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/the-twitterpeek-is-a-peek-for-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/the-twitterpeek-is-a-peek-for-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/the-twitterpeek-is-a-peek-for-twitter/#comments Peek's never been one to shy away from the wacky and opportunistic marketing schemes but launching a whole product just for Twitter? That's courage, drive, and possibly a mental health issue. Yet here's the TwitterPeek -- what looks to be the same old Peek you know, love, and probably haven't purchased, stripped of its email and SMS functionality and re-oriented towards telling the entire world too much about your body and what you're doing to it every waking moment of the day. Now, to be fair, we're getting a distinctly strange feeling of phoniness about this whole thing, but there's already an Amazon listing and a picture of the box has already surfaced on -- where else? -- Twitter, so this could really be happening. Just think about that for a second. And then tweet about it, of course.

[Via LiveDigitally]

Read - Amazon TwitterPeek listing
Read - Peter Ha's TwitPic of the box

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