wait, WHAT!?!!?

[Snow_Fox]

taken from Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more

Kindle Touch have the most-advanced E Ink display technology available, and the 3G Kindle Touch adds free 3G wireless

 

[Harry2]

Because there aren't fat video files to tranfer, only tiny eBooks

Harry

 

[Snow_Fox]

That still requires 3g towers, 3g service and a lot of other things.

 

[Bubsmash]

To answer your question this is why right here read this and this should help you out: Amazon Kindle Finds a New Use for 3G | PCWorld

If you dont read it you wont know HOW they do it. It actually is a marketing sceme and really nothing is for free. What they did was they included it in the price of the Kindle so technically they say its free but paying the price you pay for the Kindle itself it takes care of allot of book transfers as well as data transfered back and forth through the 3G network that Amazon is using.
I am sure your thinking HEY FREE 3G and um no not happening without a Kindle E Book due to the way that the E Books log in to the 3G network.

 

[!on]

All the more reason to give us smartphone users something better , a bigger push on 4g, or even use the old analogue TV (VHF, UHF) network to spread WiMax, hell, it may even give better coverage than 3g or EDGE in some places!

Let Kindle users have their free g, I want more consistent signal with less black spots. So what if it's weaker, I'm paying!

 

[Lettersii]

The free 3g on Kindle is for distribution of ebooks only. You can't use it to do any regular internet browsing or other things your smartphone does with apps (though Kindles do have wifi for internet browsing).

 

[zuben el genub]

Nook does the same through ATT

 

[esthernrob]

yeah, 400...

 

[SUroot]

I say save whatever amount of

 

[NorthernNoel]

The free 3g on Kindle is for distribution of ebooks only. You can't use it to do any regular internet browsing or other things your smartphone does with apps (though Kindles do have wifi for internet browsing).

Unless you have one of the older Kindles where web browsing over 3g is still supported.

 

[daveybaby]

The free 3g on Kindle is for distribution of ebooks only. You can't use it to do any regular internet browsing or other things your smartphone does with apps (though Kindles do have wifi for internet browsing).

You can definitely do 3G web browsing on the kindle 3. And you can do it anywhere in the world. For FREE.

But youre not going to enjoy it much: viewing web pages on an e-ink display isnt ideal to say the least, and you can forget video. Its good enough to check your email and catch up on the news, but that's about it IMO.

 

[daveybaby]

Unless you have one of the older Kindles where web browsing over 3g is still supported.

AFAIK all Kindles with 3G support it (edit: maybe the ad-supported ones dont?). And I havent seen any reporting on the Kindle Touch (the only one of the newly announced devices that has 3G) which says they've dropped it (although I may have missed it).

Edit: Ah, they have dropped it from the Touch. Bit of a shame, but i guess you cant blame them: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/10/3/amazon-drops-web-browsing-kindle-touch-3g/.

However, the keyboard 3G model is still being sold and will still support it.