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Originally Posted by Rizla
Apparently the chip in the Kindle comes with blue-tooth functionality built-in, and guess what--Amazon turn it off! Why? It would cost them nothing to leave it activated, and leave it as an unsupported experimental feature.
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Of all the silly complaints, this is the winner. What exactly would you like the ereader to connect to via bluetooth? A smartwatch? A phone? A car? Noise-canceling headphones?
Given that its an ereader, what possible use could there be for a bluetooth connection?
Remember before you answer, that any connection is going to require a fair amount of software on the kindle for a really obscure use-case. Its not about turning on the bluetooth, its about all of the software support after it is turned on.
Or did you just want them to turn it out so that when you scan for bluetooth devices for your phone, you would see the Kindle as one of the devices? Perhaps that's it, they should turn on the bluetooth as a Kindle location device. That sounds like a feature most people would want.
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Originally Posted by Rizla
Why does Amazon have such an unnecessarily restrictive attitude? It's like with not allowing custom fonts and the poor margin options. But unfortunately Amazon seems determined to reduce the functionality of e-readers.
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I would certainly like better margin control and line control, and I would also like the font control that the Kobo has.
But all of the fairly obscure use cases for a book reader (SD card, more than 4 GB of storage, TTS, audiobooks) and now this silly one are all just a distraction that do no help to us if Amazon happens to be monitoring this forum.
Perhaps it would make more sense to concentrate on the features related to the general use and function of a book reader. When asking for a feature, perhaps it would make sense to say "is this a feature for me, or would it help with at least a sizable minority of device users".