12 Nov

What do I have in common with Time Magazine & Oprah?

Author: Elizabeth

We all love the handiest new gadget for keeping up with email, the Peek! TIME.com put out their list of the Best Inventions of 2008, and they have the Peek listed alongside such products as the Wii Fit and the iPod Touch.

And, in the current edition of “O” magazine, Oprah has the Peek on her “O List” of Great Gifts Under $100. What makes the Peek worthy of the attention of TIME and O magazines?  The Peek does one thing, and one thing only, and that’s email. It’s not a phone, or a video camera, or a music player, it’s just email.  And for me, who gets hundreds of emails a day, having an easy-to-carry device that lets me take advantage of downtime to open, read, and save or delete emails, plus be able to send new ones, the Peek is exactly what I have been needing!

I was extremely fortunate to get an email a few weeks ago from the Peek team asking if I would like to take a look at this hot new gadget. I took a look at the status of my email inboxes and immediately replied ‘oh YES PLEASE’. I received a snazzy red one that looks like the one in this image:

peek handheld

It took just a minute to get it set up to access my Gmail account, and now I just keep it on all the time and every time a new message comes in, a blue envelope icon flashes in the corner of the Peek. I can open, read, save, or delete, plus send new messages.

The Peek costs $99.95, but you can get it at Target right now for just $79.95. Service is a very reasonable $19.95 a month. This would make a GREAT GIFT for someone you know who likes simple gadgets and gets a lot of email. Like me! :)

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13 Responses to “What do I have in common with Time Magazine & Oprah?”

  1. Jordans (2 comments.) says:

    wow, just $79.95 at target! thanx

  2. Tim (1 comments.) says:

    Those are real cool colors at such cool prices!

  3. Sheena @ Mommy Daddy Blog (18 comments.) says:

    Wow those look AWmazing! I’d love to review one for my holiday gift guide. Did you get free service for a while?

  4. Kimberly/Mom in the City (10 comments.) says:

    This sounds like a great gadget. I’m such an email “addict” that it would be awful for me to get it though!

  5. chirky (19 comments.) says:

    That seems like a cool gadget, but I wish you could surf the Internet on it, too.

  6. Myrna (1 comments.) says:

    I am a complete sucker for lists having to do with shopping. It is attractive to think someone could cull through everything out there and recommend the best of the best. The Peek sounds like it would be good for a pre-Blackberry person. We have to keep our “crackberries” under control you know!!!

  7. Jamie (1 comments.) says:

    I think this is a fantastic product for people who is an email addict. I’m an email addict, but I have the blackberry. The Peek gives people the freedom to check emails, but not be stuck in a (phone) contract.

  8. Elizabeth (77 comments.) says:

    Chirky- but that’s the point, it’s just email! I spend too much time on the Internet as it is :)

  9. Mariana (2 comments.) says:

    Thank you for telling us about this! I had never heard of it. Sounds like it could be a good gift for my husband… he’s always calling and asking me to check his email.

  10. Wii Fit (1 comments.) says:

    Seriously? It only does email. It seems like a waste of money and space to have an extra device for that. I would love for my digital camera, phone, email, et al to be in one small functional device. But that’s just me I guess.

  11. atchisson (5 comments.) says:

    have you ever thought about affiliate marketing? the reason i ask is because i want one of these and if you had a link on this post to a place i could buy one, you probably would have just made a sale.

  12. Scott (1 comments.) says:

    That is really cool. I am an email addict as well and this gadget will serve me well. Are there any kinks to it? I have just seen it and I am loving it now. I hope that they still have that at Target.

  13. Gadget Review (2 comments.) says:

    I am a complete sucker for lists having to do with shopping. It is attractive to think someone could cull through everything out there and recommend the best of the best.Those are real cool colors at such cool price