Robbie Hitchcock of San Ramon didn’t want to shell out big bucks and spend hours learning to retrieve e-mail with an iPhone, so he bought a gadget about the size of a pack of cigarettes and the thickness of a matchbook, the Peek.

Fumbling with complicated technology is not a Peek experience. The slender device, created by the founders of Virgin Mobile, makes it supremely easy to send and receive e-mail nearly anywhere. And that’s all, folks; no games,

camera, calendar, videos or any of the other myriad services offered by gadgets like BlackBerries or iPhones.

Peek plus spares its users the $200 or so initial fee and approximately $70 monthly cost of those devices, not to mention their mandatory contracts. It’s about $100 upfront and some $20 a month thereafter, and you can opt out anytime without penalty fees.

“You can set up on a Peek in less than a […]

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