It’s been a little over a week since my Peek arrived – weird, because it feels like I’ve had it for much longer. I’m enjoying it and it’s doing exactly what I wanted it to do for me: forward my work e-mails to me so I can keep tabs on what’s going on when I’m in transit (at a red light – I don’t text while driving, and neither should you!!) or out and about on the weekend. The e-mail arrival times vary, but I’m not noticing a significant slowing trend — which was something I was afraid of, but seems an unwarranted worry.
It’s also proven to be a nifty notetaker – but I have small fingers and nice fingernails to really zip through that ram-tough keyboard.
Some scattered thoughts:
–One bit of added functionality I’d really like is the ability to read Word documents, even just in plain text form. I get forwarded Word documents a lot and would like to see if they’re important enough for me to drop what I’m doing and head home to take care of… If they can show JPGs, surely Word docs aren’t too much to ask.
–Also, the option to break large incoming emails into segments. I don’t know if Peek’s mail servers can really do that, but “Too long for Peek! Read it online!” is a little disappointing (even though I knew there was a length limit).
–A decent complete online manual, please. This gadget can do more than what’s in the quick start guide, but you’d never know it.
–I’m wondering if Peek could be marketed as a low-cost mobile communications device for the deaf. It seems to me that deaf users would have little use for smartphones with pricey mandatory voice plans or fancy ringtones, but would find mobile e-mail or messaging to be just as vital as the rest of us do.
By the way, the best solution for grabbing online content through your e-mail is SnapAsk. Their e-mails are prompt and clean, especially the “Wiki request” function.
Another neat service is TweetBeep, which bundles the latest Twitter tweets on subjects of your choosing, and delivers them in a digest e-mail to your box about once an hour.
Gotta go. The boss just sent me another after-hours e-mail. Thanks to Peek, I can figure out whether or not it’s really important, without having to sell my soul to a phone company. 
