Are you sure you want an Amazon Kindle?
Posted by Chris Leckness on 12/7/07 in Amazon
If you are on the fence, let me push you off. I am not “trying” to talk out of one of these, but I personally don’t want one and would hate to see you guys dissapointed if you get one and can’t use the EV-DO… That’s where a great post from Gizmodo yesterday comes in… Make sure you are in a good area for use of the network.
I’m not sure if this is a widespread problem, but just in case - if you live within any of those gaping white spots in the image above, you probably shouldn’t waste your money on the Kindle. Keep in mind that Amazon’s wireless connectivity for the device is dependent on the Sprint network and, as everyone knows, Sprint’s network blows goats in rural areas.
As a rightfully irritated commenter on BookofJoe noted, Amazon should have notified him of this when it bought it. That may be true, but you wouldn’t expect your phone company to do that right? Besides, Amazon did mention all of this in the product page, but it could have been easily lost in the long list of information.
Source: Gizmodo
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Chris
“Where EV-DO isn’t available, Kindle connects via a second protocol called 1xRTT, which is an older 144Kbit/sec. standard. The addition of 1xRTT increases the number of locations where you have wireless access.”
Susan
If you have the internet on your cell phone you can download free public domain and creative commons books from http://www.booksinmyphone.com The selection is not as large as Amazon - but you don’t have to spend $400 on a reader. The phone is not as large as kindle either - but that just makes it easier to carry.