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Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279 (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, good luck to Amazon trying to wipe my kindle remotely with black magic then.

It doesn't have WiFi configured at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When it happened to me I was staying with a family member whose house I’d never been to before, so I didn’t have their wifi. I couldn’t believe it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Some Kindle devices come with a built-in „free“ cellular plan. Maybe it was that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aw man I didn’t even know about that. I guess 4g LTE is Amazon’s “Black Magic”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, in general it’s pretty neat. When I was 12 or 13 I had a kindle touch with 3G and since I didn’t have a phone or computer I used the kindle touch to read a lot on wikipedia (it didn’t work for everything, I think. Just a handful of selected sites). Also, it generally costs extra when you buy it, just not monthly.