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Originally Posted by wallcraft
From Engadget's Slim Amazon Kindle 'Shasta' to be first with WiFi?:
As usual, this raises more questions than answers. My first question is why would Amazon sell two Kindles? When its "Kindle is best selling on Amazon" claim revolves around the Kindle coming with no options (any color you want so long as it is white). So I would not be surprised if there is only one Stasta, with both WiFi and 3G (or alternatively, that Amazon offers multiple colors - completely breaking with the no base options approach). Otherwise pick any two out of WiFi, 3G, 3G+WiFi. |
They wouldn't sell different devices, it would just be confusing. Like Nook it would have wifi+3G, and won't cost more just because it also has wifi. It's not clear why Apple charges $130 for 3G capability on top of wifi for iPad, except that the requirements are more demanding. Kindle devices capable of using wifi would actually save Amazon money vs usage of 3G, since they would not have to pay for it.
Where I live I would mostly use my home network wifi over our broadband, since there's no 3G locally. EDGE is really slow...