Texting
Psst…heard about texting? It’s coming soon to all Peeks. Every Peek supports it. We’re just turning it on at the servers in phases. You’ll get an email that says your Peek is “on”. Meanwhile, if you want to play with the beta version of the texting feature, read up on Geeky Peek
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Does the texting feature of Peek work as fast sending and receiving as it does on a regular phone?
Comment by Don — November 17, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
Is there a way to test the texting speed of the Peek?
Comment by Don — November 17, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
Great questions Don. When you send a text message from your Peek it is in real-time just like a phone. The receive however is delayed by at most 5 minutes.
You can easily test this.
1) On your Peek, in the “To:” field put in your mobile phone number (only 10 digits no “1″ in the beginning) and send a test message
2) Monitor the recipient phone. For the incoming text message from your Peek
3) Respond to the message on the recipient phone
4) Introspect for 1-5 minutes while watching your Peek - luckily its not a pot of boiling water
5) Observe flashing envelope on your Peek indicating arrival of the text message
Let us know what you think and happy texting.
Comment by gabe — November 19, 2008 @ 7:36 am
Are there any plans to move to true ‘push’ texting, so that it is as fast as a regular phone? If I can do delay-free texting, I’ll be all about it.
Comment by Sam — November 19, 2008 @ 8:01 am
It’s baking in the Peek oven right now. We expect to have push texting/email very soon.
Comment by gabe — November 19, 2008 @ 8:31 am
Sounds good, then I expect to buy a peek very soon
If only it could get an ssh client, too. But I have a feeling I might have to hack that up myself.
Comment by Sam — November 19, 2008 @ 9:23 am
Hack away that’s what we say over here at Peek.
Check out the Peek mad scientists blog over at geekypeek.com and the Peekster community boards at boards.getpeek.com
Comment by gabe — November 19, 2008 @ 9:53 am
Here are some tips over at the Peek boards for SMS texting
http://boards.getpeek.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=76&page=1#Item_1
Comment by gabe — November 19, 2008 @ 11:26 am