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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
They won't back down. They'd be out of their minds to offer free, unlimited 3G internet access on a touch screen device.
In this case, interface is everything.
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There still will be font size problems on most web sites. There still will be a bit of a challenge where you have to know when to enable JavaScript, and when to disable to reduce the multi-window fatal message. You still won't really be able to browse, but rather have to find, on a PC, the sites likely to work well, process most through some web site like readingthenet.com or
http://google.com/gwt/n, and then save the resultant url's somewhere the Kindle browser can pick them up.
Maybe the problem is that I don't have enough touch screen experience, but it seems to me that the touch screen won't change the fact that the web experience, just like the rest of an eInk device, is only superior, to the PC, for the one purpose of reading long texts (although the KK 3G is acceptable for email when traveling).
One Touch question is whether you can continuously zoom a web page with your finger tips. I'm thinking you can't.
If this was October 2007, wouldn't you say that Amazon would be crazy to include in their upcoming eReader free unlimited nationwide cell phone based internet, for at least four years, as owners of the original Kindle have experienced? And if this was a couple years later, wouldn't one say this even more strongly about seamlessly offering the service in over 100 countries? But, apparently, they did it, and still made money.
P.S. tubemonkey, if they give the Touch the same browser as the Fire, you are right. I was thinking that it would be pretty much the same text-friendly eInk browser, as indicated by the use of the word "experimental" in the amazon.com descriptions.