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November 19, 2007
Kindle & Sprint - OMG!
My jaw is dropping a little bit as I read the press releases on Kindle, Amazon's new e-book reader.
Sprint is providing "Whispernet" to deliver e-books from Amazon's servers to the 10.3 ounce eInk reader via EVDO. Amazon must be writing some interesting checks to Sprint, since newspaper subscriptions come with a free 2 week trial and there's also free access to Wikipedia through the device.
It's the combination of form factor and connectivity that has me jazzed. I already use Sprint's EVDO service whenever I'm on the road, preferring it over the headaches of Wi-Fi.
Kindle has a keyboard. It would be interesting to see a derivative of Kindle as a web/e-mail reading device...I can only hope either Amazon or Sprint takes the logical step.
And I suspect that Kindle's WiMAX brother is already waiting in the wings... unless they've managed to sneak a WiMAX chip in there without telling anyone. Sound too far fetched? Well, up until this morning, the rumormill had Wi-Fi as the baseline connectivity with some sort of connectivity option through Sprint.
Those guys at Amazon, they know how to keep a secret...
Posted by dmohney at November 19, 2007 11:24 AM