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What *do* you remember about 3G in post K3 models? Were any of them U.S. models?
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I bought my first Kindle in the fall of 2009. It was the K2 that used AT&T for its 3G.
Shortly after buying it, a family member had a prolonged hospital stay. No one in the family had smart phones yet, and I was able to use the browser to post to Facebook to keep out of town family up to date with her status. I also looked up medications and medical terms.
This was the second version of the K2...the first used Sprint and was US only, the AT&T model was considered global.
I also had a DXG which also used AT&T and was not limited to use in the US.
There has been anecdotal evidence on the Kindle forums that Amazon has imposed limits on the 3G connections on their K3 Kindle Keyboard devices. The ones that run the 3.xx firmware. Those devices also offered wifi connections, which the K2 models do not have.
Most of that chatter on the old Kindle forum about using 3G on the browser on Amazon has all but disappeared over the past 12 months as those older devices age out of use.
The last time I tried to use the browser on my second gen Paperwhite, it wouldn't connect to any site using wifi except for the Calibre Content Server.
(There is no 3G on my Paperwhite.) Most web sites overwhelm that old sluggish browser, and while it was a nice tool in 2009, it is useless by today's standards IMO.