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TwitterPeek - the handset that spews Web2.0rhea...

Are you into Twitter? Are you insanely, over-the-top, Tweeting-at-your-mother's-funeral into Twitter? Well, now there's a device made just for your crippling character flaw, you lucky duck. Peek, the folks who make always-on handsets just for email, bring you TwitterPeek: a $200 mobile that does nothing but send, receive, and …

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Happy

When will they be releasing a ElRegPeek

so I can check the reg all day and post inane comments wherever i am

The really, really sad part...

it that some twankers will actually buy this thing.

Anonymous Coward
Coat

a cheaper option

you could always use the Pocket Surfer 2 (avalable for £60 at amazon) which will allow you to access twitter and other websites for over half the price!

Vulturepad

(I dislike the name RegPad.)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/08/regpad/

Someone, somewhere...

Won't be too long before someone somewhere flashes the OS to make a real handset out of it, in which case it might be a good and affordable linux/android host? I suppose it may not feature a mic or speaker which would spanner the works, but who knows?

Boffin

Go the whole hog!

Twitterers should get the hardware embedded directly into their brains so they can twit-away hands free by just thinking it....

If the operation is a failure and brain damage ensures, no harm done, no one will notice the difference.

Win/win.

Paris Hilton

Lacks features

No camera for tweeting pics?

No camera for tweeting videos?

Most people who want one, already have a smartphone or some phone with data.

I will stick to Úbertwitter for now.

@ParisHilton, because well isn't it #obvious?

FAIL

I like Twitter

I like Twitter, but that's a total waste of time/space/effort piece of shit gadget.

There are many better, cheaper mobile apps out there.

Coat

Missing a key feature!

This is useless without an embedded speaker and text-to-speech, so it shouts out every tweet as it receives it.

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