TwitterPeek: World’s First Twitter-Only Mobile Gadget! Do We Really Need It?

Posted by Abbas ||

November 4, 2009 ||

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Whenever I see a new gadget I mostly go … “That’s a Good one!” but some gadgets trigger a bitter reaction.. “What were they thinking?” and just for the record I mostly go.. “That’s freaking awesome!” when I see Japanese gadgets. (That was a short tutorial on my reactions for different gadgets.)

TwitterPeek is one of the gadgets which triggers the bitter one. TwitterPeek is World’s first mobile-sized Twitter dedicated gadget.

It does not need a special internet or Wi-Fi connection. It works on the cell phone towers and offers national coverage. The gadget lets you perform all the regular twitter specific activities you would otherwise perform on Twitter in a browser.

However there are a few things it does not let you do which makes this product less desirable among other thing. For example, you cannot have more than one Twitter accounts activated at a time, TwitterPeek does not come with a built-in browser which means all the browser related activities are not possible, etc..

I really fail to understand the gap this gadget is trying to fill or the issue it is trying to address. Twitter app is available for every smartphone and these apps do much more than what TwitterPeek offers. Even if someone who does not have a SmartPhone, with the dropping smartphone prices and service plans I think they are better off buying a smartphone than a gadget that does just one thing.

TwitterPeek sells for $99.99 with 6 months of free service after which users pay about $8 pm to use TwitterPeek or buy it for $199.99 for a lifetime free service.

A closer look at TwitterPeek

TwitterPeek

That said, I think the company has not invested much in innovating something new because I don’t see any difference between Pronto, Classic or TwitterPeek (hardware wise). So all that is different is an application otherwise everything else remains the same.

From that point of view, it’s a smart move to sell more gadgets by trying to capture the smartphone-less twitterholic audience.

The gadget is exclusively available on Amazon. Click here to buy TwitterPeek for $99.99 and here for $199.99.

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