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SteveEisenberg · 08-01-2010, 04:09 PM

Usually we are slow to adapt new gadgets; I waited until a used Palm PDA went down to $30, and if my employer hadn't pushed an AT&T 3G BlackBerry on me about a year ago, so I could be hailed down 24/7, I would not yet have a cell phone. And yet I just ordered the 3G Kindle, which could mean Amazon has a hit on their hands (or could just mean I'm weird.)

I use the miserable BlackBerry browser a lot, and my theory AKA ignorant hope, for at least some purposes, is that Kindle's WebKit may be better. Most Wikipedia articles are too big to load on my corporate-configured highly locked-down BlackBerry, but Amazon says they will work ("experimentally") on their gadget. That will have the admittedly dubious benefit of settling factual argument between kids in the car.

I suppose that Amazon can't let the browser be too good, or else I won't spring for a newspaper subscription. But I don't like the idea of paying maybe $9.99 a month to read news that is 12 hours old. Is there any plan to integrate Kindle newspaper subscriptions with the 3G so you can have a newspaper reading experience that is superior to free web content, and just as up to date?

08-01-2010, 04:09 PM	#68
SteveEisenberg Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,435 Karma: 43514536 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: near Philadelphia USA Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)	Usually we are slow to adapt new gadgets; I waited until a used Palm PDA went down to $30, and if my employer hadn't pushed an AT&T 3G BlackBerry on me about a year ago, so I could be hailed down 24/7, I would not yet have a cell phone. And yet I just ordered the 3G Kindle, which could mean Amazon has a hit on their hands (or could just mean I'm weird.) I use the miserable BlackBerry browser a lot, and my theory AKA ignorant hope, for at least some purposes, is that Kindle's WebKit may be better. Most Wikipedia articles are too big to load on my corporate-configured highly locked-down BlackBerry, but Amazon says they will work ("experimentally") on their gadget. That will have the admittedly dubious benefit of settling factual argument between kids in the car. I suppose that Amazon can't let the browser be too good, or else I won't spring for a newspaper subscription. But I don't like the idea of paying maybe $9.99 a month to read news that is 12 hours old. Is there any plan to integrate Kindle newspaper subscriptions with the 3G so you can have a newspaper reading experience that is superior to free web content, and just as up to date?