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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
My memory is otherwise.
If I'm mistaken -- and it has happened -- you can find the old Kindle marketing web pages at waybackmachine.org, and prove me wrong.
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You're right.
To AZImmortal: This was discussed VERY often on Amazon Kindle forums and there WERE screen captures shown of what was said before, and at no time did it say "lifetime" although that word was used by some gadget news reviewers for reasons I never understood.
For one thing, it's always been 'experimental' and then we've also had years during which people have pointed to the wording in the Terms of Service that stated they had the ability to charge fees later on 3G wireless.
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The original Kindle free internet has been delivered, in the US, for 4 1/2 years. That a long time in the tech world.
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Yes, and that's despite cynical columns or blogs [Example:
http://blog.thestateofme.com/2010/08/03/kindle-3-trap/ ] that said that the free 3G was a trap and sometimes pointed out that the conditional wording in the Terms of Agreement meant Amazon could institute charges later at any time once we were reeled in. As you say, in 4-1/2 years they haven't done it on the old models though.
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A suspicious person could say that by using the word "experimental," and pre-loading bookmarks unsuited to the device, Amazon has always been discouraging browser use. But I don't know where they broke a promise.
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Right, especially in this case since they didn't ever promise 'lifetime' but they've also never removed the free-3G from the older models although they could at any time.
They didn't include the free 3G in the Kindle Touch almost surely because of direct access to the hyperlinks versus the tedious 5-way button navigation on the KK to multiple links that can badly affect that navigation -- and because the Kindle Touch has a faster processor. Both these advantages mean people would be more inclined to use the web browser on 3G quite a bit more on the touch model if it were included...