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Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

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Re: Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

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Post by notatoad »

lliiffee wrote: post #27
johnpaulett wrote: post #17

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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.

the kindle3 browser is quite good in and of itself, but it's severely limited by the kindle's slow processor speed and d-pad navigation.

Re: Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

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Post by riffraff »

diamondhead wrote: post #50
riffraff wrote: post #48

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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.

I got it in spring I believe. Sorry, I read the previous comment's "counts" as a statement about current kindle shipping policies.

Re: Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

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Post by tseabrooks »

jbondeson wrote: post #38
pw wrote: post #28

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Why do you want a Kindle DX? Reading PDFs in the sunlight? I've always wonder who's buying the DX, because at price, you might as well get an iPad.

As a Kindle DX owner, it's all about the form factor and readability. Back lit screens cause eyestrain for those of us who read quite a bit. With my DX I can read for hours on end in any environment I could read a dead tree version in. And with the battery life measured in page turns, even when reading at a crazy clip I can go more than a week without charging. Form factor was the other huge sell. If I want the abili…

I work in front of a computer and read 1-2 books a week on my ipad.. if I have eyestrain I'm not noticing it.

Re: Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

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Post by rorrr »

lliiffee wrote: post #27
johnpaulett wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use it from time to time. It's ok when you need to read something on the go, but it's not pleasant to use, and it renders like crap, often incorrectly. It's ok for reading HN.

Re: Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

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Post by jbondeson »

tseabrooks wrote: post #55
jbondeson wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Kindle DX owner, it's all about the form factor and readability. Back lit screens cause eyestrain for those of us who read quite a bit. With my DX I can read for hours on end in any environment I could read a dead tree version in. And with the battery life measured in page turns, even when reading at a crazy clip I can go more than a week without charging. Form factor was the other huge sell. If I want the abili…

I work in front of a computer and read 1-2 books a week on my ipad.. if I have eyestrain I'm not noticing it.

No one has figured out a way to objectively measure eyestrain so it's a completely personal decision.

As a developer I too spend all day reading and writing text on a screen and I can can tell you that there are so many things that go into what causes me eyestrain personally that I'm sure making any of it objective would be tough.

I have tons of problems with eyestrain when reading black-on-white text for long periods of time, so the kindle works great for me. I'm sure with a sufficiently configurable reading app I could tweak it until I could stand it, but I don't know too many PDF readers that allow you to start messing with background colors and the like.

Re: Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

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Post by dvdhsu »

lliiffee wrote: post #27
johnpaulett wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Chatting and Google Voice don't work well because those are relatively real-time activities, and the Kindle can't handle those well. E-mail, however, will work just fine.
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