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I've been talking about the Peek for the last couple of days. If you remember, I bought one on amazon with my spare change. Well, it arrived today and as promised, it was up and running in no time. I got the Aqua blue one and it wasn't my first choice but the price was right. All I had to do was put the battery in and turn it on. It came up with a message for me to enter my email address and password. I then received an email with my PIN. I just went to the website and put in my credit card and that was it. In no time I was receiving emails. I even emailed in my twitter/facebook updates with it. Now for the complaints

1) The emails come in about 5 minutes after they actually come to my email account. This is only noticeable when I'm sitting here comparing. When I rely on the Peek at work I won't know that they are 5 minutes behind.

2) The contacts won't let me type in the first letter of a name to jump to that section. I have to scroll all the way down. Now, in the "To" field in new emails I can type in the first letter of the email address (not the name) and it will bring them up.

We'll see if my enjoyment with the Peek continues. So far it seems like it's gonna be great.

Well, I was talking about the Peek email only device last night I did a little research. I found them on amazon.com for significantly lower than the $99.95 the company is selling them for. More specifically I found the Aqua one for $65.25. I took my change to the coinstar machine and came out with an amazon coupon for $68.23. Shipping pushed it to just past 70 bucks for the Peek so I had to spend about $4.50 for my Peek. I am excited. I have been preparing ever since. I set up my email to be able to update Twitter by sending an email. This will also update my Facebook status. I also finally figured out how to blog here from my email.

I was just reading at my friend Julie's blog about the simple email device called the Peek. Now there is a blogger named Jenn that is giving away one. It works with most of the popular email services and I definitely want one. I totally could do without a cell phone with one of these. If I don't win though, I may put this on the list of my graduation gifts to myself.

Win a Peek at jenn.nu! Participating in the Peek giveaway is as easy as citing a blog entry that links to the giveaway and to getpeek.com. For more information, see the official giveaway blog entry: Win a Peek!