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Originally Posted by yifanlu
Why all this talk about a serial port? Who wants to walk around with a half opened kindle all the time?
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I think that the point of this thread was to use the kindle as a small low-power standalone computer with sunlight-readable display. The Kindle 3 is best suited to use with a serial device because it has the serial port and power available in the left slots where they can be used without removing the cover.
Using the kindle external USB port with a USB host bridge device was also discussed as a way to attach external devices to the kindle.
A kindle with wifi can also use wifi-enabled devices such as wifi webcams, wifi printers, and wifi remote-control toys and devices.
Another solution is to add a bluetooth serial adapter inside the kindle, as was done long ago on a kindle 2, but this requires opening the kindle at least once, and finding a way to shoehorn it in there (if even possible on newer more compact kindles).
Not everybody is ready to port android to their kindle (at least not yet). Personally, adding an onscreen terminal console with touchscreen keyboard to the diagnostic partition of my touch is attracting my interest. I decided that /mnt/mmc is a good place to keep the "other" root partition mounted in both main and diag modes (during development and testing).
Everybody has their own interests and their own areas of expertise. Some people are interested in attaching a keyboard to their kindle, and other people think it is a dumb idea. To each his own, as they say.
