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Originally Posted by mathil
I bought mine last May, I believe, or around that period -- I took advantage of the sales for Mother's Day  But I got a Wi-Fi model.
Are you still in Japan and if you're not, does the 3G work? I've done a quick search and it seems that with Japanese Kindles, the 3G connection only works in Japan, as opposed to the European and North American ones. I would guess that the 3G model is specific to Japan then, probably built to work with their own network frequencies -- which means that you cannot trick amazon.de/it/com into thinking you actually bought it from them.
As to why Amazon.co.jp doesn't allow you to remove the ads, I'm afraid there's no reason -- you just can't. It says so here at the bottom of the page, but it doesn't get translated to English when you change the website's language, so if you don't understand Japanese you have no way of knowing beforehand.
I think at this point it might be best to send it back. |
This is very very helpful!
I live in Japan but yes, the only reason why I got the 3G kindle was since I am traveling a lot. If the 3G does indeed not work, I have even less reason to keep it. A short google gave this Quora answer and yup, you seem to be right -
https://www.quora.com/Can-Kindle-pap...ies-like-China
Mine goes back to amazon now and I'll grab a 3G the next time I'm in the US.