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Re:Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Displ... by georgieporgie on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @01:52PM (#3049066)
I have a Kindle 2 with cellular access. I used it for GMail communication while bicycling down the Pacific Coast last year. Rendering glitches aside, it's tolerable for reading email, though writing takes a ridiculously long time due to screen redraws. Also, it absolutely sucks battery life down if you do much writing. I can't imagine using it for chatting, and I don't know how GVoice could be used at all.

Unless the Kindle 3 is radically different, I can't see how it would be a significantly different experience.

Re:Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Displ... by lliiffee on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @02:49PM (#3049327)
I was just thinking of using GVoice for sending/receiving SMS messages. The Kindle 3 has a webkit browser that is supposedly better than previous versions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzIlYEp_kDo