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Originally Posted by RogerS View Post
What I found interesting in today's announcement is that the Kindle2 has discarded WiFi and all connections to the net use the 3G network.

You want to surf the net, you use 3G. Like it was a cellphone.

Except there's no charge -- no data fee, no monthly or annual access fee, nada, zero, zip.

Makes the $359 seem a lot less, if for instance it enables you to drop an unlimited monthly data plan from your cellphone provider.

Roger
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EDIT: I actually see nothing about surfing the web, only using the Whispernet to buy stuff from Amazon. So they just pad their prices and eat the cost of bandwidth. Think of the 3G cost as "delivery charges". Other than copyright costs and maybe some formatting, that's pretty much the entire cost of the e-book, after all.
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