<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Actually, I've been contemplating this problem myself, how to write jounals while out on the CDT this summer to eventually add to my website (bedore.org). Having a limited budget, I was hoping to find something that does not require a service plan; perhaps the typed journal could be loaded to a computer with a USB port, memory card, etcetera. Any ideas there?</DIV>
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<DIV>For what it's worth, the peek device itself sells for $50 or $15, depending wether you want the advaced model, on Amazon. That leaves you looking for a service plan...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dan Bedore<BR><BR><B>com <I><Trekker4@aol.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV> I have no use for a smartphone, the service cost, or the 2 year contract. I just need email while hiking, for a daily email, quasi journal to friends and family, and a daily trail conditions report to PCTA, CDTA, and CDTS people . </DIV>
<DIV> So it's either my present Pmail or a Peek. For 2, separate, 1-month CDT hikes, & WA in Aug to finish the PCT, I'll have to pay Pmail $105 for 6 mo of service. That makes the Amazon $290 Peak Pronto and lifetime service a very good deal. However, the feedback on the Amazon and Costco sites points out that the "lifetime" is that of the device; if you lose or break the device, you just lost everything; I don't know if they offer insurance, but I'll ask them. I'll also ask them about extra batteries. Their site also has no "whats in the box" or pics of same.</DIV>
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<DIV> Does the Peek have a "flight mode" function? My concern in switching from Pmail to a Peek is battery life; 2 lithium AAs have lasted up to a year on my Pmail, which I mostly use only during hikes.</DIV>
<DIV> I'm also concerned about the far smaller keyboard. I can type on my Pmail while stumbling down the trail.</DIV>
<DIV> There's a lot of negative, but more positive, feedback on the Costco and Amazon sites. The negative runs a wide swath from bad devices to flimsy devices to bad email service to bad customer service. </DIV>
<DIV> Anyone have further input on the Peek? </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Bob "Trekker"<BR>Big Bend Desert Denizen, and...<BR>Naturalized Citizen - Republic of Texas
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