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Interesting. They said that the Kindle Fire will be pre-registered with your Amazon account out of the box. How do they do that?
Well at $199 with that kind of integrated experience there is little room for complaints! ($300 would be a different story.) Plus it supports Flash and most Android games/apps from Amazon app store. If people put up a better email client on Amazon store for decent price it would be even better. For someone who already has Prime but no tablet - this is a no brainer. Thinking of all this - I think this will eat into th…
If people put up a better email client on Amazon store for decent price it would be even better. k9 mail (free, open source) is already available on amazon's android appstore, and it's a much better client than the stock android email app.
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Up to this point, Whispernet gets relatively little traffic per-device (initial book download being the biggest bandwidth use). While there is the experimental browser in the Kindle, it had limited functionality and is fairly well hidden. With the introduction of Video on Demand and full web browsing in the Fire, I'm sure Amazon's 3G provider is hesitant to allow lifetime access to their network for a one time fee of…
Does anyone have much experience with the browser? I've been thinking about buying a kindle 3 3G, with one of the major motivations being the free worldwide web access. I know it is limited and slow, but it would at least allow for email access / chatting / google voice.
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I don't get it: I bought a kindle from amazon US and they shipped to europe in two days.
when? it was being shipped to only usa last january.
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Don't forget: 7+ hours video (vs 0 for e-ink)
Nonsense! The e-ink does video. http://gigaom.com/2011/07/08/how-do-you-get-video-on-kindle-... It just has a very low frame rate. And no sound ;)
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why?
The majority of the time I've seen people connected to ad-hoc wifi, they thought they were getting free internet access and didn't understand why it didn't work. Also, as I understand it, to only plays local content and internet content - nothing from the local network.
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Does anyone have much experience with the browser? I've been thinking about buying a kindle 3 3G, with one of the major motivations being the free worldwide web access. I know it is limited and slow, but it would at least allow for email access / chatting / google voice.
It's free worldwide whispernet access, not web access. Web access doesn't work in Greece, for example (it can access Wikipedia, though, which is very useful too).
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Nonsense! The e-ink does video. http://gigaom.com/2011/07/08/how-do-you-get-video-on-kindle-... It just has a very low frame rate. And no sound ;)
What do you mean "no sound"? Displays don't play sound either.
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It's free worldwide whispernet access, not web access. Web access doesn't work in Greece, for example (it can access Wikipedia, though, which is very useful too).
From what I can tell, what you get access to depends on where you bought the kindle more than where you are. Did you buy your kindle in Greece?
However, last time I was in the UK, they barred access there too, which was odd. It definitely worked the first time I got it.
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It's free worldwide whispernet access, not web access. Web access doesn't work in Greece, for example (it can access Wikipedia, though, which is very useful too).
From what I can tell, what you get access to depends on where you bought the kindle more than where you are. Did you buy your kindle in Greece?
However, last time I was in the UK, they barred access there too, which was odd. It definitely worked the first time I got it.