[ninja_250cc]

Hello, I was hoping someone might already have an answer to something, even though I could experiment to figure it out myself i'm afraid of exhausting the 50meg limit thing.

I recently got a pair of Kindle 3's. I discovered that the 3G experimental web browser still works! Which amazed me, as years ago articles say they at least capped it to 50megs/month after some dummies did tethering to laptops and similar. I'm wondering if anyone knows is this still the case? (I didn't want to exhaust this or/and abuse this feature so after browsing to 3 websites I stopped.) Just verified that it would log into gmail and be capable of sending email albeit clunkily.

I am trying to set up one of the kindles for a friend of mine whom is extremely poor. (for whom the $7/month Tracfone cell/data plan is beyond their budget, and i'm a college student eating Ramen every night not much better off to give them more than the kindle) I'll be giving them the one that has the better keyboard as they may need to use it for email and i'm just using mine for ebooks. Mostly for emergency communication where there might not be any wifi available - even if it's only 50 megs, that's a decent amount of email if ads can be avoided and if never touched except in an emergency.

What I was curious about is if I can extend this usefulness further. Has anyone ever experimented with Instant Messenger services, either dedicated or multiple-standard (like Trillian or whatever it is called) to know whether the built in browser supports the frames, javascript and such needed adequately?

I don't suppose anyone has ever figured out a driver for the built in microphone to try and use it with something like Google Voice for that free phone stuff have they?

I am wondering if any other older generic android apps can work on it if jailbroken taking into account the lack of touchscreen and limited input options. Just practical things whatever that might be.