{"id":7052,"date":"2009-12-09T23:50:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T22:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2009-12-10T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:49:46","slug":"lanzamos-el-peekfon-correo-electronico-para-toda-europa-sin-coste-de-roaming-1290-al-mes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=7052","title":{"rendered":"Lanzamos el PeekFon: correo electr\u00f3nico para toda Europa sin coste de roaming a 12,90 por mes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tal como anunci\u00f3 Alt1040<\/a>, el 15 de diciembre Fon lanzar\u00e1 el PeekFon, un dispositivo para correo electr\u00f3nico que opera con las redes m\u00f3viles y tiene una tarifa \u00fanica de 12,90 euros al mes. Se vender\u00e1 por 99 euros, pero esos 99 euros incluir\u00e1n el PeekFon m\u00e1s 6 meses de servicio de correo electr\u00f3nico ilimitados. Luego, el usuario– sin contrato ni ninguna penalidad de ning\u00fan tipo– si quiere podr\u00e1 pagar 12,90 euros por mes para obtener m\u00e1s meses de servicio e inclusive pagar algunos meses si y otros no, dependiendo de si viaja o no.<\/p>\n

En Espa\u00f1a cualquier servicio de Blackberry que incluye el Blackberry cuesta unos 1200 euros hasta terminado el contrato y si sales de Espa\u00f1a con frecuencia, por el roaming, cuesta de 2000 euros para arriba al cabo del contrato. El PeekFon costar\u00e1 unos 300 euros por el mismo per\u00edodo. Est\u00e1 especialmente orientado a las empresas que buscan moderar sus gastos ,pero se vender\u00e1 tanto a empresas como a individuos.<\/p>\n

(El resto del art\u00edculo es en ingl\u00e9s porque no me ha dado tiempo para traducirlo).<\/p>\n

The Peek is an efficient email gadget whose unique feature is that it will have no roaming charges in any European country.<\/p>\n

The PeekFon will be 99 euros to buy, a reasonable price especially considering that the price includes both<\/strong> the gadget and 6 months of all you can eat email service anywhere<\/strong> in Europe. No roaming charges. No contract.<\/p>\n

After that we will charge euro 12.90 per month for the service but as opposed to other email machines out there, there is no cancellation penalty of any kind if the user does not want to continue with the service.<\/p>\n

This is a complementary service to Fon WiFi but it is not a WiFi product. It is a GPRS product. The idea is that with Fon you share a little wifi at home and roam for free but the PeekFon addresses those moments in which you can’t find WiFi. With the PeekFon you get the most important piece of messaging, your email, anytime.<\/p>\n

Browsing, Twitter, and other functionalities will be added within months but for now buyers have to think of the PeekFon as an email machine with a full keyboard.<\/p>\n

Why is Fon launching the PeekFon?<\/p>\n

Because in Europe we pay huge roaming charges when we leave our own countries. As a German you can come to France and easily pay in a day what the Peek will cost in a month.<\/p>\n

Because many people still prefer a phone that looks like a phone for phone calls and sms and an email machine for email and don’t mind carrying two devices that do their jobs well.<\/p>\n

Because even if you never leave your country Blackberry services, iPhone and Android services in Europe cost around 50 euros a month and have minimum 2 year stays and include no talking minutes. So in Europe even if you stay at home you spend 1200 euros to get email and if you travel around Europe you spend double that on the average. This would compare with 312 euros with PeekFon vs 2400 euros if you roam and 1200 euros if you don’t. So there are enormous savings for getting email.<\/p>\n

Having said all this Fon recognizes that \u00abapples to apples\u00bb a Blackberry, an iPhone, an Android is a better product than a Peek and if you have the extra money to sign 1200 euros contracts and spend a few thousand more for roaming the Peek can’t compete with the complete iPhone, Blackberry, Android experience. But as a pure and simple email machine the Peek can and its price is just reasonable.<\/p>\n

We also recommend Americans and Asians and other non Europeans coming to Europe to get a PeekFon as roaming charges by US operators are a killer over here so much so that the iPhone for example comes with a feature to disable roaming.<\/p>\n

The PeekFon will be available at Fon.com<\/a> December 15th. It will be available for shipping to all European countries for which shipping is now provided for the Fonera. If we see demand from USA and Asia we will also have it available at our US and Asian shops to be activated when landing anywhere in Europe.<\/p>\n

GPRS service for the PeekFon will be provided by the new Pan European MVNO for gadgets Spotnik. Fon will be Spotnik’s first customer.<\/p>\n

El PeekFon en los medios:<\/p>\n

TechCrunch<\/a>
\nTechCrunch<\/a> de nuevo
\nWashington Post<\/a>
\nAlt1040<\/a>
\nXataka<\/a>
\nSlashGear<\/a>
\nPhone-Review<\/a>
\ntech.nologi.us<\/a>
\nGizmolog\u00eda<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tal como anunci\u00f3 Alt1040, el 15 de diciembre Fon lanzar\u00e1 el PeekFon, un dispositivo para correo electr\u00f3nico que opera con las redes m\u00f3viles y tiene una tarifa \u00fanica de 12,90 euros al mes. Se vender\u00e1 por 99 euros, pero esos 99 euros incluir\u00e1n el PeekFon m\u00e1s 6 meses de servicio de correo electr\u00f3nico ilimitados. Luego, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}