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Old 10-29-2011, 12:00 PM   #85
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
Huh? WTH do you make these things up from?
Only WiFi. No limited free 3G.
Only 6GB out of 8GB internal memory available for consumer
No SD card port to provide additional memory
No real USB2 port useful for 3G dongle, adding storage drives, keyboard, etc.
No full android market without modifying

Bezos has a simple elegant idea to tie down the Fire to the Amazon cloud which works well for Amazon but since the Fire is only WiFi, you can't get to the cloud if you are away from WiFi. On that point, even Amazon is coming up short.
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