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andrys · 11-24-2011, 07:50 AM

I should mention that the 9.7" Kindle DX Graphite is on sale from Nov. 24-28 for Black Friday Weekend, at $120 off -- it's selling for $259 instead of $379.

It has 3G only, no Wifi. And it has the same free 3G slow web browsing situation as the smaller Kindle Keyboard.

The fact that the K3 is slow is the reason Amazon can keep doing it. The KTouch has an obviously faster processor, web is pretty fast, and the direct-touch access to links make it so usable that Amazon would lose money paying the data charges for that.

I added the DX details last night at http://bit.ly/kwdx259

(That's a shortcut for: http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/2011...kindle-dx.html )

11-24-2011, 07:50 AM	#18
andrys Explorer Posts: 218 Karma: 48926 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Berkeley, Califorina Device: Kindles,SurfacePro2,NookColor,Pocket Edge,Samsung 10.1 Tab,S2 phone	I should mention that the 9.7" Kindle DX Graphite is on sale from Nov. 24-28 for Black Friday Weekend, at $120 off -- it's selling for $259 instead of $379. It has 3G only, no Wifi. And it has the same free 3G slow web browsing situation as the smaller Kindle Keyboard. The fact that the K3 is slow is the reason Amazon can keep doing it. The KTouch has an obviously faster processor, web is pretty fast, and the direct-touch access to links make it so usable that Amazon would lose money paying the data charges for that. I added the DX details last night at http://bit.ly/kwdx259 (That's a shortcut for: http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/2011...kindle-dx.html )