One of the most important features provided by a large number of portable devices (PDAs, Smartphones, etc.) is that it allows their users to check their e-mail inbox wherever they might be. Nevertheless, for some unclear reason, the people from Peek have launched back in the second half of 2008 the device with the same name, which, according to the manufacturers, is the “world's first device designed for and dedicated to your mobile email”.

It's rather unclear why anyone would purchase yet another dedicated device when the mobile phone or PDA they already own can do this job perfectly, but since the device got manufactured, it means that it probably does have a more or less solid targeted customer base.

Anyhow, leaving aside the reasons why someone would/would not get a Peek, let's see what the device can actually offer. Hence, the PDA-like portable product features a 2.5 inches (320 x 240 pixels (QVGA), 65k colors) display, which is used for showing one's personal e-mail messages. Speaking of which, it's also important to mention that the Peek allows users to access up to three email accounts and also comes packed with a full keyboard, for fast and easy text input.

Within the Peek, we can find an embedded 104Mhz, ARM7 CPU, which is a part of the Texas Instrument Locosto chipset and is used for running the proprietary Peekux operating system. Moreover, the device also features the “impressive” amount of 8 MB of memory, for storing the e-mails.

For communicating with the company's servers, the device employs the US GPRS bands (800, 1800, and 1900 Mhz), but no GSM, so no voice communications are possible (otherwise, this would have not been different from just about any PDA).

The Peek sells for 100 US dollars (plus an extra 20 bucks per month for the service), which, in the end, amounts to a pretty hefty sum, given this product's relatively limited level of functionality.