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Originally Posted by Charbax
In my opinion, Amazon had no excuse not to include touchscreen wacom stylus input and full WiFi or international 3G modem support.
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I'm betting that there are a lot of reasons why international 3G modem support isn't included - most of them related to why Amazon doesn't officially sell Kindles outside the US... Why does Amazon need to add international support to a device that is only being produced for consumption in the US? Yes Americans do travel internationally but so what? That's like telling electronics makers that their device is a let down because it's only wired to accept 110v current...
If Amazon doesn't have the deals in place to sell e-books outside the US to the Kindle why should they worry about international 3G on the device? Even better - Kindle is a CDMA device - but if it was going to support the international standards it needs to include either GSM, HSDPA, UMTS, or even LTE - a radio that isn't built in to the device... Plus that also means making accommodations for a SIM card slot as well... Keeping it CDMA? How many CDMA carriers outside the US would Amazon need to cut deals with? If Amazon isn't planning on selling the Kindle outside the US why bother with this?