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Originally Posted by HarryT
When you use a 3G connection on a Kindle, the Kindle does not connect directly to the web site on the Internet; it goes via Amazon's firewall, which then routes it on to the site that you connect to. It's the firewall which determines which sites to allow you to connect to, and which sites to block.
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So you are saying that Amazon deliberately, by means of its firewall, allows the older kindles access to more sites than the newer Kindles? This may be correct, but if so, why? It is a pretty safe bet that it would be trivial and almost certainly easier to have the firewall rules not distinguish between Kindles? Is it as simple as Amazon not wishing to impose limits on its Customers which they were not subject to when they bought their older Kindles, out of fear of litigation or simply good customer relations?
I personally have never had a 3G Kindle. One suggestion made earlier in this thread was transfering the 3g hardware from an older Kindle to a newer one. Assuming the limitations are based on Amazon's firewall, I would think that if this could be accomplished, and it is a big if, there is some chance that the newer Kindle would escape the firewall restrictions. This depends, of course, on how the firewall identifies the Kindle model.