Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December

Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by hellotomyrars on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:07PM (#27998739)

It kind of made sense at the time. I have a Kindle DX, and that came out in 2009. Wifi was less ubiquitous and more terrible, and the idea with the Kindle anyways is you could be anywhere and buy a book, and it would just work.

It did open up some very interesting homebrew applications too!

Also the early models with WiFi had the absolute worst radios and constantly tripped over themselves. When I worked for Centurylink in/around 2011 one of the most common issues with wifi was Kindle devices. Thankfully most customers could figure that if their 3-5 other devices were connected and working, the issue was their Kindle, and not the CPE.

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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by ghaff on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:13PM (#27998809)

WiFi was pretty terrible for quite a while after it came out in general. I remember, in the early to mid 2000s, the Intel Developers Forums had desks set up to try to help press and analysts get, often plug-in PCMCIA card, WiFi working. And it was almost certain to fall over during general sessions anyway--well some things mostly don't change.

But if you actually needed a working network connection in the press room, you plugged an Ethernet cable into your laptop.

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