After last weeks teaser, Peek has officially announced its new e-mail only device, the Pronto, and it addresses pretty much all the shortcomings of the original.
The big new thing is push. The Pronto now supports five e-mail accounts (up from two) and all of them get pushed directly to your handset. This really is a poor man’s Blackberry replacement, especially as the Pronto supports Microsoft Exchange. The Pronto also gets search (at last!) and can now display Word (.doc) files and PDFs along with pictures.
The biggest news, though, is that the $20 per month plan now includes unlimited SMS messages. Yes, send as many as you like, contract free. This could be huge, especially for people who don’t actually use a phone to make phone calls. Now you can stay in touch with old fashioned talkers as well as those more advanced emailers. I would buy one of these today if I could, but the Pronto is only available in the US.
The Pronto is a little more than its $50 brother, at $80, but probably worth it for the texts alone. The plan, as we mentioned, is contract free and still $20 per month, and the Pronto is only available in boring business gray.
Product page [Peek]
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