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IMO, the Peek was a few days late to the game. 3-5 years ago, it would have been a great idea. Today, it’s dreadfully inadequate.
At this point, you need more than just email and/or twitter. They need to beef it up enough to run, say, Android. Give it wifi and EDGE, unlimited data and email/IM messaging (but not SMS/MMS), and a dpad and “android buttons” between the keyboard and the screen (Android doesn’t require a touch screen, but without it, it’d definitely do better with a dpad than with a scroll wheel). If it doesn’t already have a microSDHC card slot, and mini-USB client for data sync and charging, add those two features. Have that be the base/cheap model.
Then make a Peek Pro that has all of that, plus 3G, camera (photo, video, flash), 3.5mm headset (stereo output only, since this isn’t for voice communication), maybe a full size SDHC card instead of microSDHC, and maybe can act as a mifi. And make the screen size the same as the G1 (not just the resolution, the total size). Or bigger, if you can pull it off, but probably not.
That might be worth it. (in fact, if the pro version had all of the rest of that, and preserves the full 5 row qwerty keyboard, I’d definitely buy it)
From Android, you’ll not only have email, IM, and calendar … they’ll also get Twitter, Facebook, and other social sites via Android applications. And if you put a GPS into the Pro version, you might get the Google/Android navigation service too. Though, for me, the biggest deal would be the mifi part :-}
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