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Originally Posted by ChaoZ
I'm in Canada and this new tidbit of information raises some concerns.
Half of my reason for getting the Kindle would be for occasional web access (gmail and the like) via 3G. I know it's slow, but access is access.
Right now, for Canada, it says:
Access Wikipedia via Whispernet on the experimental web browser. Access other websites like Google via a Wi-Fi connection. Blogs can also be downloaded via a Wi-Fi connection.
If Amazon is killing this feature in the K3 and going Wifi only for web outside of Wikipedia, I may as well just find a used K2i.
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I checked all the countries known to not show the web browser as 'not available' to them and they all say the same thing.
The wording is more like encouragement to use WiFi for the rest of it as it is faster. I'd call Kindle customer support to get their confirmation but they're not likely going to wrest away 3G browsing from the 56 countries. But they need to be clearer about that now. So I'll be sending in a question too.
All the countries seem to say the same thing now. Germany, it seems, has been added to officially enabled-for-wireless countries as I saw a sentence about it on their site, along with other countries enabled but it has altogether different wording.
They just changed wording on all the pages overnight to include the fact that WiFi is useable and I think it's not subtle encouragement to use that instead where it's available. It'll save them money.
But, again, I'm going to ask about this wording that just went up.
Thanks.