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I wouldn't be surprised if there's a one-time registration fee for each device on the Sprint network, too. It's probably only a few bucks. People make such a big deal out the wireless internet browsing. These are mostly people who haven't tried it. It's fantastic for getting content and hair-pullingly frustrating for anything else. They have no need to charge for web browsing yet bc there's not much you're going to want to do with this thing besides get content. Now if Kindle-friendly websites start popping up, that may change. I doubt they will be that attractive anyway since access to the rest of the web is pretty darned slow. I'm thinking it's throttled because I have Sprint EVDO on my smartphone and it's WAY faster. For now, the dime-per-dowload charge is easy to just build into whatever you buy.
Is it a luxury? Not really. It's a nice convenience and an interesting model for single-purpose network access that could work for many kinds of devices.
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