This article that appeared in New Zealand gave me a chuckle, but also made me ask the titled question. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/C14CFCFB65E3B76DCC2575160003C15D
This is also an oft-heard, water tap conversation within Peek. We are trying to build around a category we call “Personal Mobile Email”; which we envision as being distinct from the RIM-dominated “Business Mobile Email” category.
A lot of our customers have distinct domain addresses such as joe@joesfishingandbaitshop.com… so we are definitely getting some business users.
A few facts for some of you:
1. Exchange – you can integrate our Peek service to your exchange server, read here for more details – http://blog.getpeek.com/2008/11/microsoft-exchange-and-peek-it-can-be-done/
2. Security – if your email service provider or email server supports SSL on POP & SMTP (e.g. gmail) than your Peek email service never exists on the public internet. It is always within a secure environment.
3. Availability of support – I think support is huge for businesses. In the world of BB you have to pay for gold/platinum support, in the world of Peek you can use the boards, email Gabe or I, phone care, etc.
So, that is my sales pitch. I’ll let you guys give your honest feedback to a few questions:
1. Are we a product for businesses?
2. Are we a product for big businesses or small business or everything?
3. What features would we need to be for small business? What about for big business?
-Dan
Ian Littman | 09-Dec-08 at 1:13 pm | Permalink
I’d say for small business you guys are a great fit…in a few version releases. Basically making the UI more responsive (probably already fixed somewhat) and adding push to the e-mail would take you 90% of the way there.
Beyond that, PIM functions, and sync for those PIM functions, would mean that small biz people don’t have to trade in their inexpensive, easy-to-use cell phones for an expensive/bulky smartphone.
Oh, and security on the device itself. Adding a passcode to the lock gets you halfway there. Remote device wipe takes you 75% of the way there. Beyond that, you’d have to ask someone who’s actually in enterprise.
One more thing: e-mail sync. For big businesses I’d think this would be a must, for peoplle with big inboxes. Important emails stay around, otherwise emails archived or deleted on the desktop get archived or deleted from the Peek.
It’d also be cool to do internet tethering, at a specific price per MB, though with a GPRS connection it sounds rather painful.
Finally, auto account setup and support for more than three accounts would probably be a good diea. I have two e-mail accounts I use regularly, a third tat I use sometimes, and if I had a dedicated biz account things would become problematic on the Peek. BlackBerry supports 10 accounts. You could could maybe support 5 and get away with it…
P.S. Corporate billing of accounts, rather than individual billing? Volume discounts equivalent to the gift subscription prices?
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Annonmous | 09-Dec-08 at 6:52 pm | Permalink
Peek people please read this it is kind of blunt but how I see the peek. I am a 19yo college student working part time in corporate America and will explain more in detail in the end of the post.
I can definably see this being a fad if you leave it at just email. When I was in school every kid had a cybiko and they could chat do internet and play games… In a year they just faded away. The peek I would pay 2-300 for with a lifetime of free email on the road.
That said if more features were integrated I wouldn’t have to get a cell phone and a peek and a personal organizer because anyone who does business has a decent phone that has atleast an organizer phonebook and phone call ability.
The peek seems like a stripped down palm with email anywhere in the world. The benefits to getting say a low end smartphone like a blackjack over the peek are:
voice…
Email: basic support on peek more on smart phone
personal organizer
apps to do whatever you like ie face book and games
Now while the peek has email widgets that you can send an email to and will bounce a reply back, it is a pain to remember how to use them and I can just as easily send a txt to the program.
The peek to me atleast is another $20 a month bill to get very limited email support.
I can see a lot of people buying these for their children/grandchildren this holiday season then after that unless there is major innovation not very many sales. Possibly a buyout by a large company in the future.
The market I see is college students and yuppies that can’t afford $60-100 a month for a data plan that need email and very small business people that can’t justify that payment. If the initial cost was higher and had free internet for life along with a model that had monthly charges more companies would think about getting them for their low level employees so they can work on the road and stay in touch. if a business could strike a deal and buy say 500 of these and get a lower price on the forever plan it would be cool too. To an exec making big bucks or just an upper-middle class person paying $60 a month(an hour or 2 of work) per month for a upper mid range phone is not very much to them and would benefit them by having “it all” in one device.
The peek can benefit the middle class person who has a small business on the side by getting email on the road if they don’t want to buy a smartphone
The peek can benefit a connected college student by giving them their email anywhere for cheap.
The corporate company by giving all the low level employees that don’t need a work phone email while they are not at work and say traveling abroad GSM was a good choice btw
Anyone who makes over say 50k a year can get an iphone without putting a dent in their incomes and for the features it provides… if I can afford it why not?
Also the peek needs a basic game… tetris atleast or some low CPU demand game that could be implemented decently easy and give hours of fun. Most low end cell phones don’t have games today.
So hopefully you can sift through this pile of thoughts and get something that is useful cause I have watched fads come and go and would like the peek to stay. The wired thing and the O list might actually be bad because pushing a new device out on the market that isn’t final might be risky because it will either it sink or swim but the college student/yuppie population is where you need to market to condense this rant. Any higher and its not much to them to get a berry or iphone any lower and $240 a year is a lot.
Also do some marketing… Geeks read wired and o magazine is for women that sit home and are bored. The normal people don’t read much of these magazines and know nothing about the peek. Sorry for this stereotype but it shows a large group of the population that you are looking to market to that know nothing about the peek.
Side note the amol link is broken on geekypeek, the device needs quake and look at zlib for compression.
CRAMSEY | 09-Dec-08 at 7:16 pm | Permalink
I would agree 100% with a lot of what IAN LITMAN has to say. I will touch on it a little more later in the post.
However, I would like to point everyone to the following article from CIO.COM.
How Text Messaging and Facebook Can Get You in Legal Trouble
http://www.cio.com/article/457925/How_Text_Messaging_and_Facebook_Can_Get_You_in_Legal_Trouble
Ok back to IAN point.
I agree 100% that the Peek is a great solution for small business users. Its a low cost solution to being able to provide feedback and support on the run.
Another advantage that the Peek offers to start addressing the mid to large business areas is that it is a device design for email only. Because of this you know if someone is using it it’s being used for email only.
My short list of features that would help the peek become business ready:
Forcing the device to lock
Remote device wipe
“Encryption that no part of an email can be seen as it’s being sent or received”
“Protection of account information”
I like the comment of centralized management of accounts to devices.
Centralized billing is great also.
I also agree with better control with managing the inbox. I personally have gotten in a habit with my personal email of logging in basically once a day to gmail either deleting the emails, or adding labels and archiving. It would be nice to be able to do that from the peek.
With that it would be useful to retrieve archived emails by label. There has been a few times I know I have an email that I wish I hadn’t deleted from the peek that I wish I could had the ability to retrieve.
I could go on and on but like IAN has said a large chunk is related to security, account setup and billing issues. With those issues address I believe that would get you peek can easy address concerns up to the mid company space.
I think the Peek will have difficulties in the Enterprise space because it will be seen as a cheep and inferior product. That being sad look at how many companies now use Linux instead of UNIX and Solaris.
Enabling the Peek to be a true open source platform (device, middle tier) will allow it to get a larger following. Security professionals likes an open source because they know there are no smoke and mirrors. And of course everyone else likes it because it’s not Microsoft, Apple or BlackBerry.
CRAMSEY | 09-Dec-08 at 7:19 pm | Permalink
Oh and rereading my post reminds me of one other thing. I would really like to see spelling and grammar checking added to the Peek.
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Ian Littman | 09-Dec-08 at 7:32 pm | Permalink
Cramsey, good points. By the way, sentence case on the name, kthxbai.
About the spell check, wouldn’t it be ingenious for spell checker to use as a dictionary the compression dictionary mentioned in “Help Us Save Money?” I hereby release this idea as Creative Commons Attribution, so no jerkwad can patent/copyright it, thus adding to the bunch of dumb lawsuits out there
Logisticalstyles | 09-Dec-08 at 7:42 pm | Permalink
I run a mobile DJ company and I have found this device to be extremely helpful in my business. A lot of my leads and communication are in the form of e-mail. Clients other DJs like that I can respond quickly while on the road. I think the above posters already touched on a lot of the main things that would definitely make this a good device for SMALL businesses.
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Ian Littman | 09-Dec-08 at 10:21 pm | Permalink
@anon user Good points, though personally I’m not sure I want memory on the Peek used up by a game (it’d be cool to have it for download though). Games would also kill battery life I’d think. Quake? Uh, no.
As to the price factor, you’re forgetting one thing: no contract. If you don’t like the service, you leave. If you do, $200 per year cuts down on the price somewhat. Also, you can get Peek devices for <$100 online (eBay).
As to zlib, Im prety sure gzip compresses a little better.
For the service fee deal, it’d be cool, I admit, if the Peek was offered with a lifetime subscription. As it stands, it’s cheaper than anyone’s unlimited data package (rightly so, but still…) and on par with an unlimited text messaging pack from pick-your-carrier. So really not that much money. $240 per ear may sound like a lot…until you compare it with $30 or $40 per month plus taxes and fees for smartphone or Blackberry email elsewhere.
Nice thing also about the Peek: no contract. I think it’s now the only data centric cellular device offering unlimited service (AT&T is now 100 MB), contract or not, and the Peek itself isn’t expensive to boot.
I’d say grab a Peek off of eBay (they’re around $40) and try it out. If you don’t like it, Peek marketed to the wrong person when it marketed to you
.
Oh, and US News & World Report, Men’s Magazine, several TV shows and elsewhere have featured this device on them. So no, it’s not just i Wired…
dan | 10-Dec-08 at 4:20 am | Permalink
I will admit, I reside firmly in the “no spell check” category. My reasoning, people use crazy english and grammer in short emailing/texting. Not just common folks, CEOs of big companies will send messages like “Dan check srvr for email now.. tx”.
There are others in Peek who disagree with me. I think our compromise is something that looks and feels more like auto-correct (teh -> the).
BTW – gzip now uses zlib.
What do you guys think about roaming? Showstopper for big business? What about for small business?
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards | 10-Dec-08 at 7:12 am | Permalink
Sorry guys, you aren’t a business device. Regardless of Exchange email integration, the Peek is a consumer appliance/toy. It’s in many ways a Sidekick minus the camera and phone.
1. Reliability.
(Yes, even with firmware 1.07). In a marginal coverage area, it very often loses the connection to your servers as GPRS coverage drifts in and out – the only way to get it to find more mail is to power-cycle. Can’t you add a menu option to reset the connection? Or a watchdog that will automatically reset it if the servers haven’t responded in a while?
The same kind of symptom happens randomly even in a good coverage area – just last night I left the device on my desk and in the morning there were three or four messages on it. Going in and checking the POP server, I saw over two dozen messages that had been downloaded by Peek’s server but not propagated to the device. The Peek didn’t sync fully until I power-cycled it.
If I can’t trust my mobile device when it says “no new mail” then I can’t do business with it.
There also needs to be more realtime diagnostic information onscreen about these sorts of problems – merely the lack of activity of that strange rotating green dingus doesn’t qualify.
2. Many UI quirks when compared with “industry standard” devices.
For example, it’s widely conventional that double-space inserts a period and capitalizes the next letter. Also while in a mail list or reading pane, hitting “r” should reply, “f” forward, etc.
Additionally it should be possible to have different “from” vs “reply-to” addresses (yes I’m aware of the thread in your groups about this), and it should be possible to automatically bcc all outgoing email so that email sent from the device can be automatically archived in some real location.
Further, the battery meter, at a guess, is using a simple voltage measurement rather than a gas-gauge (integrating I over t). The reason I guess this is that the battery meter can fluctuate wildly – with the backlight on continuously for a while it can go down to the red zone, then be mysteriously >50% full and green next time you look at the device.
3. Calendaring. At the very minimum it needs to be possible to schedule meetings and respond to invitations from the device. I’m sure it would be possible to integrate with Google Calendars or other similar free groupware.
4. Roaming. I assume you don’t permit it, and I would guess, though I haven’t opened it nor looked up the FCC ID, that the radio in your device is not multi-band anyway.
5. Lack of security features. Apart from the significant hole where plaintext mail is routed through your backend servers, the device lacks even basic password protection and has no (advertised) remote kill function.
Peek is not a bad product by any means, but I would be quite alarmed to think that anyone is trying to run a business, even a home business, from this device. And I’d think it disingenuous if Peek was actively advertising it as capable of such use.
dan | 10-Dec-08 at 7:55 am | Permalink
Great thoughts Lewin. Can you reach out to me via email (dan at get peek), and I will investigate some of the issues you are mentioning?
A few notes –
1. We are US tri-band, it does roam fairly well in China, India, France, Canada
2. Double space period unfortunately is patented by our mobile email device friends in Canada (RIM), but we are adding lots of shortcuts & functionality similar to this.
Ian Littman | 10-Dec-08 at 7:55 am | Permalink
@Lewin
1. Reliability will come in time.
2. Those UI enhancements are good ideas, and Peek should implement them.
3. This would come a bit later, but it’ll come, in all likelihood. If not on the Peek than the “Peek Pro”.
4. T-Mobile allows a fair amount of domestic roaming, and the chip inside the device is tri-band, but agreements have to be worked out. This takes time, something tat Peek doesn’t have much of as of yet.
5. There’s a lock button. They can add a password, and it sounds like they will in an impending release. As to remote wipe, with ya on that one. i think they’ve heard about that from several people and will likely implement it at some later date.
Note that most of the features you talk about here are more enterprise features, but yes, the Peek could be much, much better for small business. It may not be for every small biz right now, but it will be good enough for 90% of them a firmware update or two down the line.
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards | 10-Dec-08 at 8:38 am | Permalink
@Ian – My response to pretty much everything you wrote is “fair enough – makes sense”, except for issue #1. If it’s not reliable now then it’s not usable for business now.
The cost delta between Peek and unlimited BB data is $30/mo. So what I’m hearing here is “Peek is suitable for a business that profits less than $30/mo” which to me is not even a profitmaking hobby.
OBTW, there’s one other thing I forgot to mention, and that’s that many small biz’s operate through eBay. Without a web browser on the device, it’s hard to do anything other than say “oh well” when you get an eBay notification. If there was a way to do “eBay stuff” (watch, re-bid, cancel items, relist items etc – not general browsing and searching) from the Peek, without the overhead of a full browser, that would be most useful.
Ian Littman | 10-Dec-08 at 9:33 am | Permalink
@Lewin by your logic everyone in business should have a BlacBerry on Verizon with the unlimited everything plans, ith a cost of $150/month per line, since their profits should support it, right? But I’m being facetious.
As to the eBay thing, eBay does have a text messaging service, and if Peek works out a deal with eBay e-mail based responses should be an easy thing. The SMS service allows for rebids, etc. so the email service could allow for such things, plus messaging, etc…
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards | 10-Dec-08 at 9:56 am | Permalink
@Ian – Well no – BB unlimited data is $49.95/mo (AT&T). So the cost of reliability is +$30/mo. I can’t see a business (as opposed to a hobby) balking at that cost when real money is at stake.
dan | 10-Dec-08 at 11:29 am | Permalink
I’ll be slightly defensive here and bold in this statement.
The Peek is more reliable than either the iPhone 3G or the Storm. Both were horribly buggy, much worse than some of our beta releases of the Peek that were not commercially released. Did you read the Pogue Times Review of the Storm, or the raving mad customers about iPhone 3Gs crashing 5x a day?
So if that junky level of software quality is acceptable for business, why is ours less acceptable?
In a past life I wandered the globe launching BBs for a major global carrier. I have launched umpteen-zillion BB phones in umpteen-zillion markets (by umpteen-zillion I mean > 10 8-)). The RF stack, and ability to swap bands had and has tons of issues.
Ok, that’s my completely bias view. I’ll let you guys tell me if you agree one way or another.
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards | 10-Dec-08 at 1:04 pm | Permalink
@Dan,
Let’s not conflate stability with reliability. Peek’s firmware is, as far as I can see, extremely stable (doesn’t crash or obviously malfunction). I’d expect this because it is a single-purpose product with a [basically] monolithic piece of firmware.
In simple metrics like S/W defects per LOC, I’m sure you beat BB and Apple by a long margin too. BB and Apple have to contend with demand-loaded executables (some of more or less unknown origin) and multitasking (not merely multithreading) operating systems – memory allocation and task concurrency issues alone are orders of magnitude more complex. So it’s not really an apples to apples comparison.
What I observed and commented on is a failure to recover from an unexpected condition (GPRS down). It’s a reliability issue, not a stability issue.
Just AAMOI, is the baseband firmware a “brick” you acquired as a whole functioning module (separate micro core?) or is it a pre-built library linked into the main OS image, or is it something you had to integrate into the device from scratch?
amol | 10-Dec-08 at 2:21 pm | Permalink
Baseband stuff feels bricky sometimes, but we do work closely with the chipset guys to tune it up to work the way we want.
CRAMSEY | 10-Dec-08 at 8:34 pm | Permalink
Just wanted to chime in.
regarding Lewin comments.
If the peek is going to go towards the business market I agree 100% it needs to be able to receive all emails in a timely fashion. A lost sale due to a device failure is a hard cost. That hard cost can justify paying more for a more reliable product.
That is a point that needs to be shore up and seems to be getting addressed by peek. By changes to email handling in the middle tier and work towards a future firmware patch.
Those efforts should always continue until nothing else can be done. However, the peek beats a pager. And for me that was the device that I was looking for the peek to replace.
If possible the ability to roam should be a priority. Your small business level will probably consists of a group of consultants. The peek will give them the ability to keep in contact with client and answer questions and manage support calls, sales appointments and what have you. What ever can be done to keep that connection going will add value. If it is something that is going to cost all peek users to be able to do. I would say look at making it an add on cost and if possible something that could be added for a month and removed.
I would also have to agree with Lewin other comment about a calendar and appointment system. I think the do add value. The only concern I have is when does the peek start becoming a Palm Centro.
IMHO I consider the peek as being a rich notify client. The question is should that be expanded to become a rich messaging client. I believe to become a rich email client the peek form factor would need to evolve to the size of a 6″ x 9″ Steno Pad. Replacing the keys with a touch pad. and finally add web browsing. It would need to have wifi when in the office and then have a good enough data signal when on the go.
The reason I say this is because both my wife and son have new smart phones and even though they have wifi access. The screen area sucks and it is a pain to type anything.
Oh back on point, the comments are great. As long as peek being comitted to improving the device and some of the basic security concerns get address it will be able to start to move its way up. At the vary least all the comments above could be used to handle peek family plans .
BTW while I am thinking about it. Does the Peek have GPS capabilities? Thinking about family plans made me think of the various products out there that allow you to setup areas so when your son or daughter gets to or returns from a location you can get notified. GPS capabilities may be useful for business also. Who knows maybe a small company could use it for time management if it was reliable enough.
BTW where would be a good resource to find out more about GPRS and other standards. I am interested in bandwidth benchmarks. Would GPRS be similar to 33.6 dial up access? What are the concerns?
I am old school. When I was in the business there was analog 900 mhz. TDMA (Cellular One), CDMA (GTE Wireless), PCS (Sprint) and ??? (Nextel). Those where the days. I remember first getting my foot wet with Telego.
It was an analog cell phone that had a base that you plugged into your phone line that would make it possible to use it like a cordless phone in the house. It was $19.95 a month and $0.25 a minute for a call. I used to sell it door to door. Remember a lot of doors being shut on me. Interesting to see where we are today.
Any reference that could help me to catch up with the current technology would be appreciated.
Ian Littman | 10-Dec-08 at 8:53 pm | Permalink
@CRamsey
Verizon and Sprint both use CDMA, and the difference between Sprint and T-Mobile (and between Verizon and ATT) is not so much the frequency bands (T-Mobile and Sprint use PCS freqs, 1900MHz, exclusively while ATT and VZW use 800/850 “cellular” as well), but the way the signal is transmitted, CDMA (Verizon, Sprint) vs. GSM (T-Mobile, AT&T, Peek). Oh, and Nextel, the odd man out, uses a totally different frequency (around 850 but not quite) and bases their system on TDMA, plus two-way radio (equals iDEN, the tech term you’re looking for). Oh, and GSM is built on TDMA, though the 3G upgrade path for it (UMTS/HSxPA/HSPA) is not (oddly enough those are a wideband version of CDMA).
Back to the Peek, the GPRS connection on it max’s out at 43.2 kbps, to my knowledge.Real-world performance is closer to between a 26.4k and a 33.6k modem connection. Slow as molassess (sp) in midwinter, however it gets the job done, and Palm.net (which ran on a pager network, forget which one) started off at 8 kbps I believe, then went to 14.4 awhile later. It’s also inexpensive to implement in a chipset, seems like.\
About the Centro, I’ve played with one and it’s actually a quite nice device. The operating system seems to run well enough, the features are well-implemented…though the keyboard is freakin’ tiny. I’d say that if the Peek were to become more smartphone-like please let the model be the Centro, albeit with attention paid to its Handspring/early Palm roots (innovative, relatively inexpensive, stable enough to use day-to-day) rather than WIndows Mobile (feature-packed but slow and relatively unstable), iPhone (expensive, proprietary, beautiful but missing random features) or BlackBerry (the e-mail device that tries to do everything else). One thing to not learn from the Centro…okay, two: cost of the service plan (though Sprint’s $30/month for unlimited data and messaging isn’t horrible, it’s tied to an expensive contract-laden plan) and the fact that Palm stopped innovating in a serious way once they assimilated Handspring (Treo 650 and beyond, though the Centro was a nice move).
Looking forward to firmware 1.08! Probably going to send a few Peeks in for the upgrade…hold ‘em if the update is imminent (days away) and it can’t be applied at home.
Ian littman | 10-Dec-08 at 10:13 pm | Permalink
@CRamsey
About GPS, it’s not built into the GSM spec so I’d bet the Peek doesn’t have it. However tower-based geolocation (see 1st-gen iphone) tends to be reasonably accurate, and can be had on current hardware without too much of a problem. Just a little geometry, maybe some trig, and a database of towers and you’ve got a server-side app that should have no problem telling the relatively fine grained location of any given Peek.
about a reference for the newest tech info, I’m not sure about that one, but I keep abreast of cellular news pretty much so if you have any questions, shoot ‘em my way. i’m on the ning group
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards | 11-Dec-08 at 10:56 am | Permalink
OBTW – I would be less concerned at a Peek not receiving email if it gave me an error like “I can’t talk to home base”.
But if I see good signal strength and 0 new emails, with no errors onscreen, that’s just a bad thing.
PS: @Ian – God preserve us from the idea of a device that runs on iDEN
Won’t someone just pound a stake through that technology and bury it at a crossroads already?
Ian littman | 11-Dec-08 at 11:46 am | Permalink
@lewin about iDEN, its PTT is still the best-coverage high-speed network, and the most populat, hence the release of the BlackBerry Curve for iDEN. But yeah, for everything else, the tech sucks.
I also have to agree with the need for an error message. I think my Peek is suffering from this error…as soon as my eBay peek devices come in from eBay I’ll send ‘em in to get a firmware upgrade. 1.04.01 is slow and, now, unreliable.
Michael simons | 11-Dec-08 at 3:58 pm | Permalink
Dan–
I do not own a peek and I have been thinking about what it would take for someone like me to pick one up…
First off, everyone is talking about the cost of data plans. But with AT&T you can sign up for Media Net Unlimited and pop that sim card into anything besides a blackberry, and get web, email, tethering all for 15 a month. I’m not going to argue that the cost needs to come down but the functionality needs to go up. I will probably get in trouble for this but in many ways I wish that you were a service for winmob pda’s with email always connected via gsm and when wifi is available the user could tap into features like voip and web browsing without using your network. if that was the case I think that many people would be able to take a closer look at your offering.
Thanks,
-michael simons
cramsey | 11-Dec-08 at 7:59 pm | Permalink
@IAN Thanks for the information it helps alot.
I would agree with both Lewin and Ian having a notification that the peek is having a problem communicating would be a great help.
So the peek is would be like a early 1995 Pentium PC with a 33.6 modem attached.
Is there any limits on packet size? What size packet would be optimal on the peek?
It sound like if we had a pass though where a laptop could connect to the peek via the mini usb to the transceiver receiver would not be a friendly experience with must current websites.
Any way to add a some sort of packet compression between the usb to the transceiver to the usb to get additional bandwidth?
Reason I ask is because Riverbed Technology has product for WANs that enable increased bandwith by having an appliance and or software between two points. I think Juniper has similar technology too.
Sorry if this is getting a little off topic but was trying to get an understanding what is possible with the current device.
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