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Wifi on or off?
Is there any advantage to having the Wifi on or off when just reading? Does it save battery power to have it off?
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Yes it saves the battery when it is turned off. There is no real reason to have the WiFi turned on when you are reading. I normally only turn on my 3G (I don't have the WiFi option) when I know I have books to download.
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How do you turn off wifi?
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First I need to disable n00b mode in myself I think. LOL.
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I always keep it off. Just turn it on for a minute to download all the stuff I had waiting. Then I turn it right back off. It's only purpose after that is to suck up battery life .... assuming you are just reading.
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I've had mine for about 2 hours and I have 100 questions but am making myself calm down and read the manual first!!
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On my K2, I almost always leave wireless off -- but there is a problem. I don't know if it was fixed on the K3.
The issue is that wireless keeps the clock synched. With wireless off it can get out of step. As a result, books in the sort that goes by "newest/latest read" (or whatever it is called) can get out of order. Its no big deal. I just turn on wireless for a minute when I start noticing this problem -- once a month or so. |
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Turning off the wi-fi increases battery-life to a near-obscene length.
With regular - but not excessive - use, I get an average of just over two weeks on my Sony. With wi-fi off, the K3 is still running at nearly two months. |
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oh wow! they REALLY tweaked the battery life didn't they! |
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Like the others have posted here, I only have my Kindle's WiFi on when I want to download a book from Amazon.
Slightly off topic - for those with the 3G + WiFi version of the Kindle 3, can you turn off both 3G and WiFi so that you can save on battery life, or is one service always running? Holly |
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I keep wifi off most of the time. Battery life is awesome. The Nook's is horrible in comparison.
I will say though that if you keep it off and you also want to sync the last place read, it's a pain to remember. If I was reading the same book on multiple devices often, I'd probably tend to leave wifi on. |
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I know that I can turn my 3G off. I don't have a WiFi option but I would imagine that you turn both off and on at once. The Kindle looks for a WiFi connection first and if it doesn't find one goes to the 3G. At least, that is what I have read.
That and you have to be able to turn off the 3G and the WiFi otherwise it could not be brought on a plane. Last edited by ProfCrash; 12-06-2010 at 01:40 PM. |
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ah, wifi off for me but i read an average of 4h a day (let's say) so i recharge after a week and a half. the battery down to a quarter by that time. |
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Even if you're on WiFi, the 3G modem is active and connected to the cell network. It doesn't disable the 3G modem if you're on WiFi. |
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