Headquartered in New York City from 2008 to 2012, the company offered a series of mobile handled devices that provided access to email and various social networks.

[2] The company had offices in New York City, New Delhi, India, Nanjing, China, and staff in Arizona, California, and Toronto.

These applications include push email, Instant Message and chat, social networking apps, synchronization and backup, and other mobile features.

In September 2008, the original Peek email device was launched in the United States and was sold at the price of USD$99.00.

Flavors of the Peek application for alternative operating environments from other RTOSes to BREW, to Windows, and to Android have all been spotted.

It won't satisfy convergence-rabid smartphone fetishists, but for the rest of the world (i.e., the majority of it), this one-trick pony is a godsend.

In 2011, Peek expanded their push email technology globally and is now part of their "Genius Cloud" platform for low-cost feature phones.

On January 30, 2012, Peek users reported their devices abruptly stopped working, despite having paid USD$200 for "lifelong service".

Peek's CEO, Amol Sarva stated that the abandoned products were "seriously old" and have reached their end of life, with only a "handful of users" left in the US.

We have lots going with rapid adoption of our software by phone brands around the world, so Peek is flat out building for a number of platforms that our OEM customers are deploying like Android and Mediatek.

Since last year, the company has been selling "the genius cloud", a series of services designed to make inexpensive feature phones smarter.

He says that these services are the logical continuation of what Peek has been about since day one—"building smartphone features on ultra low-cost platforms"—and that they're making huge inroads with the countless Chinese manufacturers who sell unbranded phones in emerging markets, many of whom are "feeding off Nokia's carcass.