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Peek Pronto is a cool new gadget that allows you to access your emails anyplace in the world. But this gadget does more. You may receive and send text messages with it from anywhere. So no matter how long and far you travel, you may stay close with your text messages. It is the economical and easy to use. Unlike smart phones that may carry hefty on a monthly basis charges and long contracts, the limitless texting plan is only $19.95 a month. That’s much less that you’d have to remunerate for similar services. Designed for email and text messaging, the Peek is very easy to use. The gadget supports push email and is compatible with Microsoft Exchange for use with your corporate account, and you may add 5 accounts to it.. It likewise works with Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and AOL. You may likewise handle affixations right on your device. It may open images and PDF, so you are never stuck. Here is what you get with Peek Pronto:
Overall, Peek Pronto Mobile Messaging Device is an stylish, easy-to-use mobile gizmo that saves you cash and helps you be stay in touch at all times. And you won’t have to break the bank to get it.
Lots of Great Features
Most helpful customer reviews 58 of 61 people found the following review helpful. 32 of 37 people found the following review helpful. I saw the Peek reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, and bought it to fill my need. I quickly found another benefit. I could *shut off* my laptop and handle chores, untethered to a large piece of equipment, and continue to be responsive to my volunteer base and whoever else wanted to contact me via email. Because my Peek tells *me* when I have mail – I don’t have to constantly visit my laptop and refresh the screen to see if I have mail. Using the Peek saves me time in another way. I don’t get distracted by the wonders of the Internet while I handle my email on my Peek. I bought my Peek in Nov 2008, with pre-installed software version 1.04. Peek has helped me upgrade (for free, as has been its practice) to a test version of 1.09 Pronto. Compared to prior software versions, Peek Pronto has these benefits for me (note this is not a full feature list – just the ones which mattered most to me): a – emails travel from my email providers’ servers to my Peek faster than previously. In some cases, lightening fast – seconds instead of minutes. b – texting to cell phones is preserved and also made faster. This is important to me because my sister does not use email – so my “quickie” communications to her are via text to her cell phone c – search! Far better ability than before to search the Contact database. And it’s available for the first time for email folders. The search capability is not as robust as Gmail and such, but it’s a great start. d – the ability to read certain attachments (docs and pdfs, in addition to the jpgs previously allowed). e – louder ringtones/harder vibration settings to alert one that You Have Mail! (And Pronto has 5 ringtones, vs the one offered by prior software versions.) f – bold print to enhance one’s ability to read the text of an email. I admire Peek’s constant striving to improve their product. This release is another great step forward. 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. + The device does not require a service contract. If you don’t like it, you can discontinue the service. You can also reactivate the service later if you choose to. + The full keyboard on the Peek, which reminds me of the original Blackberry, is much more efficient than trying to tap out messages on a non-smartphone keypad. + Peek email service is relatively cheap compared to the data plan on, e.g., an iPhone. + The Peek allowed me to synch up with three separate email accounts and did not require forwarding copies of messages to the device like some solutions do. That was the promise. I would still love the Peek if the device had lived up to that promise. In reality, unfortunately, the value of the device was undercut badly by a series of serious reliability and quality problems. Specifically: - The device very often cannot get a radio signal. This is obviously a huge issue. As other reviewers have pointed out, coverage is very spotty. - The Peek routinely stops receiving messages, but it provides no indication that this has happened. As a result, you don’t know whether you haven’t received any messages, or whether people have been sending you messages but the Peek just doesn’t know it. On multiple occasions, I missed important messages because the Peek looked like it was active but in fact had stopped receiving messages. An email message from the Peek CEO to all users said that best way to make sure you had received all messages was to turn the device off and back on, but rebooting the device all throughout the day just isn’t practical. This reliability issue was a real show stopper for me. - There can be a significant delay (even when the device is working) between when messages are sent and when they arrive on the Peek. - The device itself, while slim and with a nice bright screen, has significant quality issues. The cursor wheel that controls the device suffers from a noticeable lag — you have to spin it and spin it before the cursor starts to move. In addition to being an annoyance (in this day and age, we expect electronics devices to respond without a lag), it can cause real problems. For example, on multiple occasions I unintentionally deleted or sent messages because I clicked the cursor wheel a second time, thinking that I hadn’t clicked it all the way the first time. To get an idea of what it’s like trying to use the Peek cursor wheel (which is key to using the Peek), imagine how hard it would be to use your computer if clicking on an object on screen with your mouse sometimes did what you wanted, sometimes didn’t, and sometimes did but with a three-second delay. It can cause real problems day to day. - The Peeksters (as the employees at Peek call themselves) mean well, but they don’t seem to have the capacity to follow up on problems effectively. In trying to solve the reliability problems, I had multiple individuals at Peek offer to do something then drop the ball and not follow through. After five months of using the device and upgrading to Peek Pronto, I finally decided to cut my losses and discontinue the service. I hope Peek solves these quality problems. They seem like good folks and the Peek is a neat concept, but the problems are serious enough that Peek email just isn’t worth the price at this point. P.S. Given my troubles with the Peek, I was surprised by the number of five-star ratings. Several of these reviews are from reviewers who have reviewed no other products, and I recognized at least one of those reviewer’s names as matching that of a person at Peek customer support. I would suggest that you check out the reviewers, not just the reviews, so you can weed out any reviews that are actually guerrilla marketing by the company.
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A Peek Into Something That Could Be Great
Why you want a Peek
Neat concept, but serious quality problems — cancelled my service
