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A New Device For Tweeters
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... Peek founder Amol Sarva tells Venture Capital Dispatch that Twitter approached his startup with the idea of developing a co-branded device in June; N.Y.-based Peek got the product ready to launch within four months. Kevin Thau, Twitter’s director of mobile business development, ...
Twitter, Peek Launch Co-Branded Mobile Messaging Device
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... Peek founder Amol Sarva tells Venture Capital Dispatch that Twitter approached his startup with the idea of developing a co-branded device in June; N.Y.-based Peek got the product ready to launch within four months. Kevin Thau, Twitter’s director of mobile business development, ...
Here’s TwitterPeek: A Twitter dedicated device
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... device is superior when it comes to twittering on-the-go. Maybe Peek Inc. will work out the limitations in the future generations and hopefully give something exclusive (to the device) so that users are lured into buying it.
TwitterPeek will be sold exclusively on Amazon for $99 that gives 6 months of unlimited service (and $7.95/month after that) or you can go for $199 that gives lifetime unlimited service.
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New mobile only lets you access Twitter
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... "I'm sure it's going to get some attention because Peek is so controversial," said Sarva to the Wall Street Journal. "People don't understand there's a market for an affordable mobile email device and they don't understand this service is valuable and useful." ...
Odd-duck device offers cheap tweets on the fly
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In a world where smartphones are vying to become your all-purpose mobile computing multitool, Twitter believes there’s a market for more specialized devices a gadget, for instance, able to do nothing but send and receive tweets . In June, Twitter took that vision to Peek, a company that makes a simple dedicated e-mail device, and today the result of that collaboration hits the market in the form of ...
News Bits: YouTube Loses Head of Content Partnerships
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... has collaborated with Peek Inc. to produce the first mobile device dedicated exclusively to Twitter , The Wall Street Journal reports. The device, called the TwitterPeek, offers users the same functionality as the Twitter desktop client and costs $99 with a $7.95 monthly fee, or $199 with a lifetime of service. ...
Really, Peek? We Need a Dedicated Twitter Device? [GigaOM]
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... targeted too broad a market, Peek Inc. has gone even more niche — and more absurd — with the first mobile device dedicated entirely to Twitter. TwitterPeek, as the gadget is branded, enables users to read and send tweets, reply, retweet and send direct messages on the go. The device sells for $99 plus an $8 monthly fee or $200 for a lifetime of service. ...
TwitterPeek: A $99 handheld for Twitter, and only Twitter
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... but I'm sure there's someone (are you out there?) for whom the Spartan TwitterPeek is just the ticket. And if simplicity doesn't appeal, how about thisâno wireless contract. Instead, you pay just $8 month-to-month for nationwide coverage, including unlimited tweeting. Another option is to get the $199 version of TwitterPeek, which comes with lifetime service. Again, I don't see the TwitterPeek making too many inroads with gadget hounds like me, but the developers in Peek Inc. seem pretty confident that there's a market for these kinds of dedicated devices, especially for ...
TwitterPeek móvil para Twittear de por vida
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... nuestros contactos, aunque la empresa asegura que próximamente las opciones de navegación se ampliarán para abarcar las necesidades de los usuarios.
Yendo un poco más allá pienso en todas las consideraciones que se tendrían antes de ofrecer un servicio similar en Argentina, y cuánto podría llegar a costar un dispositivo funcional sin costo de por vida… y me doy cuenta de lo lejos que estamos de todo lo que implica el buen uso de la tecnología.
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Peek Launches Its Twitter-Only Mobile Device
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... . The battery should last a reported 3-4 days before needing a recharge, with extra batteries and car chargers available for purchase at extra cost. The user interface has been completely designed in collaboration with Twitter to be intuitive for use with the service, including special keyboard shortcuts for easy access to common functions. ...
The Tweeter
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You knew this was coming, right? I mean, you didn't have to read the tea leaves or anything. It was inevitable. It was a Tweeting fait accompli . I'm referring, of course, to the "TwitterPeek," a mobile device dedicated exclusively to Tweeting. According to The Wall Street Journal Venture Capital Dispatch blog , the TwitterPeek has all the same functionality of a desktop Twitter client: reading tweets, sending tweets, replying, retweeting, and DMing -- only now you could Tweet on the Go. I was already Tweeting on the go myself, through my BlackBerry Bold and using UberTwitter. ...
