In my ever searching quest to strike the balance between productivity and personal freedom, I’ve been recently obsessed with mobile devices and trying to find the right fit for me. The big plus about these new devices like the iPhone and Storm is that it’s just ONE DEVICE. No need to put multiple objects to fill your cargo pockets. Just grab and go. But as manufacturers cram more and more functionality into these little devices, you become more and more enslaved to them. And dependent on them. So I offer another possibility: The PEEK.
The slick device only does one thing. EMAIL. That’s it. Nothing else. And it makes no pretense about it. It just does one thing well. So you couple this with a simple ass phone like the Samsung Alias (which lives on the rock solid Verizon network, not the constipated AT&T network) and you pretty much have everything you need: Phone, email, SMS and a flip keyboard. Sure there’s no web surfing, no Enigmo, no Street View and no Google Earth. But let’s be real…those are all TIME KILLERS. Not productivity builders.
So I’m thinking I’ll carry the Samsung all the time. And the PEEK only as needed. I’d leave it at home at nights and weekends and hence, gain back my freedom from “chimping”. So my devices would look like this:
僕が効率と自身の自由とのいいバランスを探し求める旅の中で、携帯機種に異常なまでの執着をし始め、自分に合うものを探し続けています。iPhoneやStormなどの新しいもののいいところはたった一つのデバイスで完結していること。カーゴパンツのポケットが何体もの機具でいっぱいにならないで済みます。ただ手にとってすぐ出かけられる。でも、製造者たちがこれらの小さな機械に色々な機能を詰め込むたびに、僕たちはどんどんその機械の奴隷になって行きます。依存していきます。なので、僕はもうひとつの可能性を提示します:The PEEK。
このシンプルな機械はたったひとつの機能しかありません。EMAIL。それだけ。その他はなし。しかも、それを堂々と掲げています。ひとつの事を上手にする。だから、Samsung Alias(しっかりしたVerizonのネットワークで、込み合っているAT&Tではないので)みたいなシンプルな携帯電話と一緒に使えば必要な事はすべてそろいます:電話、メール、SMSとフリップキーボード。ネットサーフィンやEnigmoやストリートビューやグーグルアースなどは無い。でも、それらははっきり言ってすべて時間つぶしで使うもの。効率を上げる道具ではありません。
なので、Samsungをいつも持つことを考えています。そして、PEEKは必要なときだけ持つ。夜や週末は家に置いて、「チンピング」から開放され、僕の自由を取り戻します。
僕の携帯機種はこんな感じです。
PEEK on weekdays when I’m away from my desk and I generally go to meetings with a bag that I can just throw this in.
PEEKは平日、机から離れていて、ミーティングなどに行く時、カバンに放り込むだけ。

On weekends and evenings when I want to “turn off”…I only have this sliver of tech.
週末と夜、「オフ」の時はこの機体だけ。
My only concern is the same concern a crack addict has to giving up the pipe. Can I really completely detach? I never said it was pretty. But it is simple. And kudos to PEEK for doing something so simple that it might just be the answer.
麻薬中毒者がパイプを手放さないといけないように、僕はたった一つ心配事があります。僕は本当に手放せるのだろうか?簡単にいくとは思いません。でも、実はとてもシンプルなこと。シンプルな事をやってくれたPEEKに賛美。もしかしたら、それが答えかもしれません。

































Less is more! Nice price also.
real talk – i need to do this too… seeing hundreds of people glued to blackberry’s everyday (myself included) just isn’t a pretty sight!
I still miss the Sanyo SCP 6200. It was the first super thin phone introduced to the US market. Unfortunately Sprint got a hold of it. And they’re not compatible with any other services. I’ve been looking to zen out parts of my life and my phone is one of them, but I can’t seem to find a phone that just makes straight forward calls that isn’t an mp3 player or something ridiculous.
it’s just more to carry. it’ll be nice to leave your emails alone in the evenings and weekends but who’ll really do that?
They are on sale today from Peek for $49.95. Supposedly it is today only…
https://www.getpeek.com/purchase.htm