When you first land on Peekamo’s Web site, you might not know it’s a free text messaging service. Instead, you could think it’s merely a microblogging service like Twitter for short-form social blogging.
The site merely says front and center: “Peekamo is a social utility that helps you communicate.” Despite the Twitter component, though, Peekamo is indeed a free text messaging service. That said, the site downplays this important element of its advertising-supported offering.
The site merely says front and center: “Peekamo is a social utility that helps you communicate.” Despite the Twitter component, though, Peekamo is indeed a free text messaging service. That said, the site downplays this important element of its advertising-supported offering.
This is the Peekamo mission: “To improve communication between people, change the SMS industry in ways they seem so unwilling to consider, remain a spam-free network and have fun without spending a lot of money.”
Peekamo, which works on any cell phone with text messaging or on any data-enabled PC or Mac computer anywhere in the world, does more than offer free text messaging and microblogging.
Such additional features include phone number masking (to hide your cell phone number), SMS archiving (to see a backlog of previous text messages), mobile social networking (think Facebook or MySpace) and contact management.
In our trial, registration began quickly and simply. At the end, the process sends a verification code to your cell phone before you can proceed with the free service. In our trial, this element failed.
In addition, the tool did not allow us to have the verification code resent. After waiting an ample amount of time, the code was never received.
Digging deeper, Peekamo states the following in its service-level agreement: “Every effort is made to deliver SMS messages within 30 seconds. We provide updates to confirm and track all messages sent to the recipient’s mobile handset. These delivery updates are usually provided within 1 minute of the message received by the mobile operators.”
Peekamo, which works on any cell phone with text messaging or on any data-enabled PC or Mac computer anywhere in the world, does more than offer free text messaging and microblogging.
Such additional features include phone number masking (to hide your cell phone number), SMS archiving (to see a backlog of previous text messages), mobile social networking (think Facebook or MySpace) and contact management.
In our trial, registration began quickly and simply. At the end, the process sends a verification code to your cell phone before you can proceed with the free service. In our trial, this element failed.
In addition, the tool did not allow us to have the verification code resent. After waiting an ample amount of time, the code was never received.
Digging deeper, Peekamo states the following in its service-level agreement: “Every effort is made to deliver SMS messages within 30 seconds. We provide updates to confirm and track all messages sent to the recipient’s mobile handset. These delivery updates are usually provided within 1 minute of the message received by the mobile operators.”
Peekamo states that “98 percent of messages are delivered to the mobile operators within 40 seconds” and “most messages are delivered within 10 to 15 seconds”.
Our trial is incomplete as we did not receive our verification code. Without the verification code, we could not begin full testing of the service. An effort is currently being made now to receive the verification code and successfully test this service.
Peekamo supports the major carriers – such as Alltel, Boost, AT&T, Cricket, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Verizon Wireless and Virgin Mobile – as well as many smaller carriers.
Our trial is incomplete as we did not receive our verification code. Without the verification code, we could not begin full testing of the service. An effort is currently being made now to receive the verification code and successfully test this service.
Peekamo supports the major carriers – such as Alltel, Boost, AT&T, Cricket, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Verizon Wireless and Virgin Mobile – as well as many smaller carriers.