Amazon Kindle DX

Jason DAngelo · Ceramic Engineer at Matt's Italian Cuisine
Well, if the kindle experimental browser worked like a normal browser, fitting to the page... and didn't freeze all the time... It would actually be a loss. Trust me, they are loosing nothing. The web-pages make you zoom-in like a horrible apple iphone, or a ghetto tablet. Takes away the joy of browsing when you have to scroll left and right, just to read with the nasty joystick and delays. Until they fix the browser to auto-width to the screen, and auto-size the text to be readable... the browser is just about pointless. Due to that stupid zoom feature, and the horrible navigation control.

Web pages were made to be re-sized to FIT THE SCREEN... just follow the 20 year old standards and fit the damn screen already! There are more than enough pixels to display every web page fine, except those pages who still haven't figured out how to program a website correctly. Heck, shrink the images if needed... good pages should be designed to do that. Ones that don't, well... complain to the web-designers who are using cheap web-page content makers, and should go back to school and learn real HTML programming.

I guess that is why they still call it an experimantal browser. The worst thing any browser can do, is side-scroll. (Unless you are looking at a super-oversized image or a map, it is just poor design.)
Reply · 1 · · Monday at 8:19pm

Ron Headshot
I really don't care all that much about the browsing experience - it's not something I plan to do regularly, but having the option when I've got no other choice is worth the upgrade price to me. Without that, forget it. I'd even be fine if they put some data caps on the usage, or downscaled all images to tiny thumbnails (which is EXACTLY what Silk would be perfect for) etc. Or even limit it to text-only. Or text-only email even.
Reply · 2 · · Monday at 8:32pm

Jason DAngelo · Ceramic Engineer at Matt's Italian Cuisine
I'd rather have data-caps and availibility too... Even if they had the option to buy time and bandwidth. (Preferably bandwidth, because monthly stuff sucks.) However, there is a McDonalds and a Starbucks with free WiFi on every corner here, and many shared-open-WiFi neighbors... In the end, I may just get one of those 3G hotspot routers and prepaid bandwidth. Then I can choose 3G or 4G, and upgrade to service if needed, for my remote pleasure.
Reply · 2 · · Monday at 8:37pm

Ron Headshot
Jason DAngelo For me it's the 100 country-support though...
Reply · 1 · · Monday at 9:20pm

Michael Long · Top Commenter
The WhisperNet 3G option was always about buying books or accessing your library anywhere. That's it.

If you downloaded two dozen books a month you probably still wouldn't hit a meg of data. A web browser, however, is another beast entirely.

Amazon can't afford to give users 3G web browsing for eternity -- and especially at the price points they're aiming at. It's just not possible.
Reply · 1 · · Monday at 9:51am

Artyom Khramtsov · NTUU "KPI"
Something went wrong in the kingdom.

Even Silk browser was designed for only reason - no charge browsing for all, but it looks like Amazon doesn't have enough money to pull the trick even for baby Kindles any more.
Reply · 1 · · Monday at 8:26am

Jason DAngelo · Ceramic Engineer at Matt's Italian Cuisine
Silk was made for lowering bandwidth use, for mobil devices, in hopes that it would allow cheaper browsing... However, silk only helps images, which is NOT the bandwidth hogger.
The bandwidth hogger is the inflated javascript, ajax, css, videos, and music... Which is 95% of what silk does not cover. (Most pages html, ajax, css, javascript are dynamic, and never get displayed twice. So even the tiny text files HTML is not worth caching. So it only helps images, mostly, and resizing poorly coded pages for specific format browsers that are unable to follow standard auto-resize functions.)
Reply · · 23 hours ago

Craig Storm
Well, that makes the choice easy. I'll take the $99 Kindle touch, please...
Reply · 1 · · Monday at 2:36pm

Alyssa Storm-Gould
Don't tell Eli, but I still REALLY want an ipad!!! LOL!!!
Reply · · Yesterday at 7:07am

Dave Butler · Top Commenter
The real question is when Amazon releases the Fire3G before Valentine's Day, what will they charge for bandwidth to watch movies? Will it be free bandwidth for Amazon Media and bandwidth charges for Netflix, Hulu etc?
Reply · · Monday at 12:44pm

Ron Headshot
Wow this is VERY disappointing. I just changed my pre-order from the 3G to the regular wifi... there's no real reason to pay extra for the 3G with this limitation.
Reply · · Monday at 8:58am

Ivan Camilo Vásquez Güiza · Top Commenter · Future Technology Engineer at PLATAFOR.MA
Meh... It will be hacked to make the 3G work with any page, I pretty much guarantee it.
Reply · · Monday at 8:36pm

Ron Headshot
hope so. Was the Kindle Keyboard ever hacked though? (For that matter, do we know if the touch is also running a custom Android or is it still 'old' Kindle OS?)
Reply · · Monday at 9:21pm

Ivan Camilo Vásquez Güiza · Top Commenter · Future Technology Engineer at PLATAFOR.MA
Ron Headshot if there's enough traction, a lot of people buy it, and if it's an interesting platform, it will be hacked. I read somewhere that it uses Android 2.1 as a base.
Reply · · 21 hours ago

Joe Blake · Top Commenter · Sheboygan, Wisconsin
So you have an optimized browser for...wifi browsing...
Reply · · Monday at 9:16am