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Originally Posted by jswinden
TRUE! I've got a Kindle 2 and the their Whispernet is Sprint and even in 3G it is incredibly slow. It sometimes takes 30 minutes to download a book when not in 3G, and you cannot use the Kindle 2 while it is downloading. Wireless LAN would be next to useless outside the home as most wireless routers are now protected and locked. BTW: The web features on the Kindles are mostly useless because the processor is too slow to support them, and Whispernet will eat up a battery charge in just a few hours.
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You must have bad coverage where you live or maybe something wrong with the unit. Have you talked to Amazon about your speed issue? My books download in a matter of seconds even in my house where signal is pretty poor. As you say, though, even aside from that it's not a good platform for web surfing. The slow processor and screen make it painful. But if your download speed is good, having access to content on the go is really very nice. It's a good tie-in with the samples. You can read the samples then buy the book whenever even if your not at home. WiFi would be less convenient for that.