Peek Giving Customers Complimentary Peek9 After T-Mobile Shuts Down Peek/Pronto Service
Peek has announced in a Thursday posting on its blog that due to the sudden shutdown of T-Mobile service which is required for the first generation Peek and Peek Pronto email devices to operate, it will give affected customers a complimentary Peek9 device as a replacement for no additional charge. As the Peek9 uses a […]
Peek Firmware Update Issues Surface
Following up on a previous report regarding the newest update for the Peek low-cost messaging device, users have begun to experience issues with the update involving the reception of messages intended for other recipients entirely as well as message transmission issues when sending via Twitter or SMS. The update also enables Google Voice messaging support […]
Peek Issues New Firmware, Asks You to Buy the Upgrade Cable
Peek has released a beta of their first major firmware update. Because the Peek was designed to be built cheaply (selling for as low as $20 on a no contract service plan), the device lacks common features in modern devices such as firmware over the air. It also doesn’t ship with a computer cable. So, […]
Peek Offers One Day Sale with Lifetime Service
Peek, the standalone email-only messaging handset, has launched a one-day sale. While the company has offered many one day sales recently, in an effort to restart sluggish sales, this offer has a twist. For the first time, the company is offering lifetime service, which normally costs $20/month. At $299.95, the cost of the service is […]
Email-Only Handset From Peek Available On Pre-Order, On Sale Monday
The Peek email-only device will go on sale nationwide at Target stores on Monday. The device is already available for pre-order in three colors; black cherry, aqua blue, and charcoal gray- with two of the three colors already on backorder. The device runs on its own “Peekux” OS with an embedded 104Mhz ARM7 that’s part […]