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Old 02-28-2011, 12:57 PM   #1526
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Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
If you're hoping to somehow use the 3G support for that, please don't! While I don't have a 3G Kindle (mine is WiFi only) I really hate to see people abuse the most awesome and extremely generous offer that Amazon has set up for high bandwidth (read: expensive to Amazon) programs. We've got a good thing going, almost too good to be true, and I'd hate to see it killed by abuse!
Nope, I have a WiFi as well. I was thinking it would be handy to be able to use the kindle as an alternative to a cell phone when I was at a hot spot. But as there appears to be no way to attach a headset to the kindle via bluetooth, USB or jack this could only be done as a speakerphone type arrangement. That somewhat reduces the attractiveness of the entire idea.

Taking a look at the state of things now it might have been better had my son purchased a tablet as opposed to the kindle, as there are now tablets to be had for $140 as well. That would be a more flexible platform than the kindle for other applications.

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