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What do bricks and Ellen have in common?

Our brave Peekster of the week is Ellen.  A mother of 3 and a Peek Crash Test pilot. Ellen has sacrificed the ultimate to help beta test the Peek Pronto; she bricked her Peek.  We’re still refining the upgrade process and while Ellen was performing the update she was hit by friendly fire (not sure there’s such a thing as friendly fire!).  Ellen isn’t super technical but she volunteered to beta test to try out the new Peek features and we are grateful for that.

Thanks Ellen and sorry about your Peek.  We will fix it up and have it back to you in a jiffy.

Quick update - we just received Ellen’s Peek and for those of you fretting, it was recovered without a hitch. Also, check out the mysterious Velcro addition on the back. We wonder what it’s for. Any ideas?

If you’ve done some cool modifications to your Peek send the photo’s to gabe @ getpeek.com. We will feature them on the blog.

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Peek at SXSW

Peeks are everywhere…

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Peekster Pandemonium update

Go Peeksters. 56 of you are beating the Peek benchmark on the NCAA bracket!

If you haven’t been following, well, thank god. We are going to have to provide some stuff.

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Peek on CNN: Save your business money

CNN recently did a piece where they featured Peek as a great way to save money over regular smartphones.

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Smartphones = Badphones?

We Peeksters have always preferred real phones over ’smartphones’ — mainly because we need to talk on our phones! And smartphones aren’t so hot.

Here in the New York Times, they actually give a name to that phenomenon: The iPhone Excuse. Can’t hear my? Oh, that’s my iPhone… Peeks don’t have that problem!

Also, check out this piece for the insanely expensive $600 iPhone if you choose not to commit to spending $80-100 with them per month for 2 years.

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Here’s Pronto!

The blogosphere has been abuzz.  The boards have been clamoring.  Finally, we’re here to announce Peek Pronto.  In a word, Peek Pronto is … well, faster.  Without further ado, cue the clips:

Real-time email delivery. Microsoft Exchange support. Texting. Search functionality. Microsoft Word .doc and .pdf attachment support.

Peek Pronto. What’s the deal? from amol sarva on Vimeo.

Texting included in $19.95 monthly service plan. What a value.

Texting from a Peek from amol sarva on Vimeo.

Peekonomics 101 - smart.

Peekonomics 101. How it saves your money? from amol sarva on Vimeo.

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Reading books on a Peek

One of my favorite ‘apps’ for Peek is DailyLit. I get Moby Dick installments by email every day! Check them out. And here is their answer to the most obvious question.

# Why read books by email?

Because if you are like us, you spend hours each day reading email but don’t find the time to read books. DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read. This works incredibly well not just on your computer but also on a Treo, Blackberry, Sidekick or whatever the PDA of your choice. In the words of Dr. Seuss: Try it, you might like it! (Oops — it would appear that the actual quote from Green Eggs and Ham is “You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may.”)

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Sweet 16

Go Peeksters! My bracket had 13 of the Sweet 16 correct…

Over 60 people playing though.

Follow the action over on the Yahoo! tournament — 63137 is the group and password is getpeek.

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Consumers continue to flee from cellphone contracts

New York Times covered an interesting survey showing that consumers are actively looking to downgrade their cellphone contracts to save money.

• 39% of Americans are likely to downgrade their plan to save money
• 26% are thinking of switching to pre-paid or pay-as-you-go to get away from contracts
• 15% have already cut back on expensive features

Peekonomics 101 shows how you can do exactly what many consumers are doing - save money on your cellphone bill while staying in-touch on the go.  So how many Peeksters out there have cut back on their cellphone bill?

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New features

We have been chuckling over here at Peek HQ this morning. Everybody is speculating and rumor-mongering about a new Peek!

1. If you have a Peek, you are grandfathered for life. We will give you anything and everything we make.

2. If you want to know my favorite new feature we have in the labs over here…it’s the coffee maker. And I’m the CEO, so I get to call the shots.

- Amol

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