tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post5558609044684081401..comments2024-03-18T22:39:50.137-07:00Comments on A Kindle World blog: Okay Folks, Amazon now has the Kindle3 3G model w/special offers $164. UPDATEDAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-45148710187792833592011-06-06T18:36:09.978-07:002011-06-06T18:36:09.978-07:00What deals have already been available for the Ki...What deals have already been available for the Kindle 3G w/Special Offers? Getting mine on June 7, and wondering what I've missed out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-8557079819944881202011-05-25T22:18:30.811-07:002011-05-25T22:18:30.811-07:00[Edited this to fix a calc, thanks to AthenaAtDelp...[Edited this to fix a calc, thanks to AthenaAtDelphi]<br /><br />Inkling, that's a good point.<br />But as Bufo Calvin pointed out once, $114 is $15 more than $99 (next step down when Amazon is ready).<br /><br />And $164 means that getting the 3G Model (so valuable to those except the ones who want touchscreens above everything else, even for reading), is only a $25 difference for that 3G over the new Nook, a feature it costs you $130 extra for with a 3G iPad (before data charges, which don't exist for web browsing with the Kindle).<br /><br />I'm in San Francisco Bay Area and I cannot find an unprotected WiFi location except places I don't want to be tied down to use the Kindle -- Starbucks, MacDonald. I just want to access the Net (especially when I need step-by-step directions, which is quite often) wherever I happen to be.<br /><br />Or, to check my gmail.<br /><br />I use it in the city when I'm out. I travel only once every few years, out of this area, so that's not the thing for me.<br /><br />I think that as a U.S. resident it doesn't matter in the way that it doesn't matter with books you buy when you're buying from outside the U.S. (which brings no problems for a U.S. resident). But I don't know. It's Amazon who would be checking where the download is done, probably, even with the Overdrive library titles. And your buying place would be considered a U.S. buyer (with Amazon) when you're travelling.<br /><br />Unless Overdrive has different rules. We'll find out. The biggest thing is it's hard to find the book you want, ready for you to borrow from the library when you want it, so I consider it a smaller thing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-21580298881831232512011-05-24T22:26:38.459-07:002011-05-24T22:26:38.459-07:00I'm surprised the discount is the same $25. My...I'm surprised the discount is the same $25. My untutored market sense says that those who buy the pricier 3G model will have more money and probably buy more. Their eyeballs are worth more than those of mere WiFi plebeians.<br /><br />In fact, for me the chief appeal of the 3G model is for traveling and traveling usually takes money. I don't need it because, stuck as I am in Seattle, almost every place I go has WiFi access. But if I were traveling a lot, particularly outside the U.S., that fully paid-up GSM Internet access in some 100 countries, would be a delight. I could get ebooks. I could check webmail. I could browse, ever-so-clumsily, web sites to keep up on the news. Overseas, wrestling with numerous and costly data plans for an iPhone isn't worth the hassle. With a cellular Kindle there's no hassle.<br /><br />One question I've yet to see answered has to do with traveling with a Kindle. Will public libraries let their patrons check books out even when business and vacation travel takes them far away. I know BBC-TV takes one look at my Internet IP address, turns up its nose, and says, "Sorry, you're not in the UK." I my local library going to do something similar?Inklinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05272203500649628022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-85204616500348916832011-05-24T22:18:45.768-07:002011-05-24T22:18:45.768-07:00and Carnoy's smaller touch Kindle ! Maybe he g...and Carnoy's smaller touch Kindle ! Maybe he got confused about the Android tablets coming out? CNet at first felt it might be e-Ink when Digitimes said FSS technology licensed by E-Ink Holdings. But he sounded as if he knew something today and wanted to say it while adding brackets around "likely"...<br /><br />No one had ever mentioned smaller. I'm through with getting different sized cases though :-)<br /><br />Kobo is just too no-frills for the money but it's a good basic reader for people who don't care about the annotations and search features. (Or did they add some in the last few months?)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-16560916264958117002011-05-24T21:09:26.798-07:002011-05-24T21:09:26.798-07:00Amazon always seems to save a little ammunition to...Amazon always seems to save a little ammunition to deflect attention from their competitors. Nice launch, Kobo and B&N! Now, back to Amazon Android Tablet Watch...Tom Semplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05127272649086914117noreply@blogger.com