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wow. i can see why they've decided to go this route, as before you were paying a slightly higher price for the gimmick of unlimited 3g. well, it wasn't a gimmick. i used it for a time for all of my web browsing.
wikipedia and amazon are two good sites to have to be able to browse. however, i think that there are other mobile websites it will hurt to lose access to. espn, etc.
i wonder how the numbers worked out on this. i bet there were scores of ppl sucking up data, while others who didn't turn the 3g on at all.
luckily the main, most important function of these things is ereading, but i can't help but think i at least a little bit contributed to the downfall of 3g.
i guess once your stable becomes as big as amazon's there's no incentive to offer free anything, and with that much data usage with increased amounts of customers, it probably becomes fiscally infeasible.
plus it was cool to go on projectgutenberg and download kindle books straight to your kindle from the browser.
then again those that want 3g unlimited browsing can still get the kindle keyboard models.
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