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Originally Posted by Flub
Whispernet on the Kindle and Wifi on the Iliad are two different things. One can be used almost anywhere you can get a mobile phone signal and one can only be used at Wifi access nodes you have access too. You can't say "The Iliad did it first" because it *didn't*.
And installing a webbrowser on the Iliad is a little out of reach of normal people  |
Even if the iLiad didn't, smartphones with web browsers have been around for
years before the Kindle came on the scene, and they can certainly be used to buy books online and download them to the device.
As I said in a previous post, what the Kindle did was to make it EASY. They weren't the first, but being the first doesn't matter with something like this.