[geeks] Kindle 3 and other eReaders

[Bill Green]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:35:18AM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:15:39PM +0300, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> > AFAIK the Kindle is a US only telephone device.
> 
> The 3G + WiFi Kindle supports 3G globally (Amazon covers the roaming
> charge) but only in areas that have GSM, of course. I'm not 100% sure if
> the web browser can be used over 3G, however - it used to be that only
> access to Wikipedia was permitted (all other browsing had to be done via
> WiFi). 

The web browser can be used over 3G (in the US and Canada at least), and
not only Wikipedia.