To me the TweetPeek sucks marbles. On 11/03/2009, Peek released a new single-purpose device named the TwitterPeek Mobile. This device follows after the two other Peek devices, Peek Pronto and the Peek Classic, both centered around texting and e-mail. The service was $15.00 dollars a month or you could buy the Peek Pronto for $300.00 for lifetime service. The TwitterPeek is based around Twitter.com, the popular micro-blogging service that seems to be all the rage. The TwitterPeek is going for $99.00 with six months of service or $199.00 for lifetime service. This handheld sounds very neat and handy, but is it really worth it? Especially with all of the applications for Twitter on many different phones. Here are the good and bad features of the TwitterPeek.
The Good
- Ability to access Twitter from almost anywhere.
- No contract
- Great QWERTY keyboard.
- Has almost all the features of the Twitter Website.
- Able to view pictures (TwitPic only)
The Bad
-Doesn't display full 140 character tweet.
- Horrible text-only browser which is slow.
- Only loads pictures from TwitPic, no other Twitter photo service.
- Doesn't support multiple accounts
- Takes forever to load new tweets.
- Extremely expensive for what it does.
As you can see here, the bad outweighs the good. Peek had a great idea in mind, but they came far from perfection. The TwitterPeek seems like a interesting little gadget, but is it really worth your money?
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