New York-based Peek Inc has launched a dedicated wireless device called the TwitterPeek meant entirely for tweeting on the go. However questions loom as to whether users need a device on top of their mobile phone to keep up with their tweets.

One of the Twitter’s underlying philosophies since the start was to create an easy way for users to send and receive updates from any phone. While this may swamp your phone with text messages, it will allow you to update your status and keep track of friends on the go.

Next came a bevy of Twitter clients for various smartphone platforms from the iPhone to Android and everything in between. If you have a smartphone, chances are that you can find a fully-functional Twitter client to keep in touch with your tweeples.

Oh and let’s not forget Twitter’s Web interface that’s specially slimmed down to work on mobile browsers. The mobile Web interface means you can even surf Twitter from your old school RAZR phone if anyone still has one of those.

Now comes the TwitterPeek that has a full QWERTY keyboard and lifetime service so that you can take it with you and tweet just about wherever you are. Peek started out by offering low-cost, unlimited mobile email devices.

Somehow the concept of students shifting to email during their college years to avoid paying for minutes makes sense. Not that this concept has really caught on in any real numbers among college students.

But the TwitterPeek doesn’t even let you send and receive full emails – only 140 character tweets. While this is probably fine for a good portion of daily conversation, overall it’s quite limiting.

Now it’s possible that the TwitterPeek could gain some popularity since, after all, it was dreamed up by the hype-masters at Twitter themselves. However I haven’t seen anyone rushing to order the TwitterPeek on Amazon.

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Entry was posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 am under Cell phones, Social Media, Technology.

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