Thinking of getting a Kindle (iso advice)

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Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

So, I'm thinking of getting a Kindle. In fact, I'm not even thinking. I want one. I really want one. It must be mine. But which to get?

The two I'm caught between are the $189 Kindle 3 with 3G, and the $139 Kindle 3 with wi-fi only.

The reason I'm caught between these is twofold. In my area, GSM (the cellular technology the kindle runs off) is incredibly sparse. This is a CDMA town, through and through. And two: my home internet connection is a 3G CDMA connection tethered through an android phone, the only wi-fi I can produce here at home is ad-hoc.

While I know I could probably squeak by with the 3G Kindle if I had to, does anyone know if there's any way to make the Kindle 3 support an ad-hoc wifi network, or any other way to share internet access from an android device to a kindle? If that can be solved, then the $139 model is definitely the way to go.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

I got Calli the $139 one with wifi only. She really loves it. She's reading it right now, in fact.

And really, we don't need the "always on 3G" for $50. She's never gonna need a book so bad that she has to have one right then. There are enough wifi hotspots around town (and in my house, heh) that she has plenty of places she can browse the kindle market and get books when she wants. If your droid's ad-hoc wifi shows up like any other standard wifi hotspot, you can set it up in the kindle. The kindle has a whole setup section where you can browse wifi hotspots in your location, select one, and put in the password (if it's not open)

gimme a sec and I'll upload a short youtube vid showing how it works.

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Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Tinwhistler said:
you can't get a wifi hotspot app for the droid that doesn't work in ad-hoc mode?
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Not without a monthly fee from Verizon. Technically, they charge for -any- kind of tethering, but, well, you know.

I could always tether to my computer and make an access point there, or just download straight to my computer and side-load. Most places I would be chilling at that I'd want to download a book have wi-fi anyway, so I think I'll just save the $50 and skip the 3G.
 
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