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Kindle owners: How does the FREE 3G work?
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angelmb
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May 25, 2011, 01:00 PM
 
Is the global wireless free 3G access intended to browse and download books from amazon or can you browse the web with it.? If so, does amazon block certain sites.?

I had bought a Kindle wi-fi (not 3G) for a friend of me two months ago. But if the 3G version lets you browse the web (newspaper websites and check e-mail), I am kinda sure he would get another one as the device is mostly awesome.

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May 25, 2011, 01:18 PM
 
You can browse, painfully slowly. You'd be better off saving your pennies for a real tablet.
     
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May 25, 2011, 01:34 PM
 
Browsing with an e-ink display is no fun at all, but that's not what they excel at anyway. There still isn't an LCD that competes with them when you want to read for hours at a time.
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May 25, 2011, 02:18 PM
 
The browser is "experimental" but you can browse anywhere and see the web in stunning black and white.
     
   
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