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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
If Amazon is not pushing it onto the Kindle, is that a sign that they consider it non-essential?
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I'd say it was pretty essential for those who were experiencing problems, though not for the rest of us. For those who did have them, the problems were not trivial.
Nevertheless, being an experimental type, I did install it to see what effect it might have on my problem-free one, since Amazon treated the update as helpful for anyone who wanted it, stating no caveats. My Kindle 3 was already responsive and quite smooth but seems even smoother now.
Before, and after, though, my books take a bit longer to load initially than they did with Kindle 2. Page turns happen quicker but the reverse image black is there longer for me because I can see an entire next page's contents before it loses the black.
I was surprised, even before the update, that when you change the orientation WHILE web-browsing, the Kindle 2 had always reloaded the web page, which taught me to avoid changing orientation while browsing. The Kindle 3, though, doesn't reload a web page when changing orientation - it just reformats what it had in a way that's instantaneous.
With all Kindles (I've patiently used the experimental web browser since Kindle 1 when wanting to look up info while out in the streets - often), I've learned that the Kindle can do Okay, if very slowly -- though much faster in the last 4 months or so -- but will eventually run out of remaining memory eventually for the next request and just reboot.
Rebooting clears memory and when the Kindle 2 restarted, I would just go back and be able to browse successfully the web page that had seemed to cause the earlier reboot.
With the 3.01 update newly installed, I browsed somewhat frenetically, trying everything and wondering when it would reboot.
Never happened. So they have quite definitely improved handling of situations in which conditions of insufficient memory remaining (or plain confusion) could cause reboots on any Kindle web-browisng -- and resolved those another way).
- Andrys
http://kindleworld.blogspot.com