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Hi,
Another Aussie here..
I've had my Kindle for 3 weeks, and was a bit disappointed at first, wireless reception was terrible, and local news sources haven't come to the party at all.
After some digging around, I've picked up a number of useful tips to aid the Aussie Kindler:
If you want to use wireless, it's a little different to the US.
The Kindle can use any provider (Telstra, Optus ETC), but in my cas always seemed to select the worst signal to work with.
The fix for this is to go to your settings menu; While you have that selected, type 311 on the keyboard, and the Kindle will rescan.
When it's done, it displays a list of providers detected, and you can select one.
I've generally found selecting Telstra 3G gives good results everywhere.
Charging the beast. I don't like having one custom cable, so researched this as soon as I got the Kindle.
The USB cable is the same as that used by the Blackberry, and some Nokia phones (the blackberry clones), so you should find a spare in your local phone store.
A number of electronic stores sell plug packs tah have a USB connection on them, so you can use these to recharge the Kindle, without the need of your computer.
Hope that was of some use to you.
Peter
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