Nope. It’s not the G1!
It’s the little publicized device called The Peek. What you’ve never heard of it? If Kindle is to Sprint, then Peek is to T-Mobile. A data device created strictly for email, it’s designed to fill the gap between BlackBerry users and people who use tin cans for communication.
You can buy a Peek at Target for around $100 and get it on the T-Mobile data plan for $20 a month. It’s a bare bones gadget with no phone, camera, or anything else for that matter. It is only for email. Period. Further, it’s for web based stuff and not corporate accounts. So why does it get the top ranking in Time’s Gadget of the Year? Beat us.
Time didn’t have much to say about it actually.
If the BlackBerry is too techie or pricey for you, check out the Peek. It does one thing and one thing only: e-mail. This slender little device gives you BlackBerry-like portable access to e-mail (it’s not a phone, organizer or anything else), but without the hefty fees; monthly service costs about $20 for unlimited access to your messages. The Peek doesn’t work with corporate e-mail yet, so for now, it’s primarily for Web-based mail. Still, for anyone who wants to keep in touch when they’re away from a computer, it’s a smart, handy tool.
In case you wondered where the G1 placed, it came in 6th.
