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Originally Posted by tomsem
There is, of course the K3 3G (Kindle Keyboard 3G). Its 3G is not restricted so much (except in certain locales).
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The coverage map for KK 3G's purchased in the US is here:
http://client0.cellmaps.com/tabs.html#cellmaps_intl_tab
The most often reported restrictions have to do with the country you
buy your Kindle in, or buy for primary use in. On this, see:
http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/p/co...3g-access.html
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If they are residents of any of the 60+ countries WITH free 3G web-browsing enabled for its residents, their Kindles will also have free 3G web browsing enabled for 100+ countries (when traveling).
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Note that browsing is only good on text-heavy web sites, and on web sites optimized for mobile devices.
As for the Touch: Amazon can change all or any of these rules tomorrow. If reviewers pan the 3G Touch for being much worse than the 3G KK because of lack of free international cell phone network web coverage (as I would), Amazon might conceivably back down. On the other hand, if Amazon strips from the 3G Touch what I consider to be the best feature of the 3G KK, with no impact on sales growth, Amazon's strategists will wonder whether they can get away with taking away the feature from the older devices.* I can't think of any strong business reason Amazon should continue free worldwide internet for long, with older eInk devices, if they get away with this on the new one.
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* Unless Amazon has inflexible long term contracts with the cell phone companies in most of those 100+ countries. I'm guessing that they pay for usage.