What’s your gadget of the year? The iPhone? The G1? The Peek? Yes, I did say the ‘Peek’. This is a little talked about gadget available from T-Mobile and it’s just been voted the winner of the Time’s Gadget of the Year award.
The Peek has been created specifically for e-mail. It features no fancy accelerometer, no GPS, no phone, no camera… and not much else either really. It’s a simple gadget that doesn’t beat around the bush. If you don’t want an iPhone, or a G1, or a Blackberry or any other PDA, PocketPC or Smartphone for that matter, but you do want the ability to read and respond to your e-mails on the go, the Peek is for you!
It’s available from T-Mobile for around $100 on a £20 per-month contract. Time had this to say about the award winner:
If the BlackBerry is too techie or pricey for you, check out the Peek. It does one thing and one thing only: e-mail. This slender little device gives you BlackBerry-like portable access to e-mail (it’s not a phone, organizer or anything else), but without the hefty fees; monthly service costs about $20 for unlimited access to your messages. The Peek doesn’t work with corporate e-mail yet, so for now, it’s primarily web-based mail. Still, for anyone who wants to keep in touch when they’re away from a computer, it’s a smart, handy tool.
If you’re wondering what else was in the list, the MacBook came 2nd, the G1 was 5th and the iPhone wasn’t even in the top 10! Check out the full list here.
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