Dumb question. How does it access the internet? Who is the service provider is what I really mean. Is it a cell phone thing?
It's not tied into a cell phone account. Basically, you get free internet connection with ads. If you have a wireless router at home, you can set it up to automatically open with that instead of the 3G. I love mine!!! Here's a link to some info on the wireless and 3G...
Amazon.com Help: Wireless on Your Kindle
Mine has 3g, and you can get them with 4g also.
It's not tied into a cell phone account. Basically, you get free internet connection with ads. If you have a wireless router at home, you can set it up to automatically open with that instead of the 3G. I love mine!!! Here's a link to some info on the wireless and 3G...
Amazon.com Help: Wireless on Your Kindle
Yeah, I know you don't have to have your own acct. My question is who provides the access? I didn't realize you could use your connection at home though.
Kindle! I guess they figure if you have the models with both 3G and Wireless, you're probably going to be hooked up using the wireless more often than 3G, so it's worth it to them to provide 3G for free. Of course, you also have the ads that pop on the screen if you're not actively reading a book. I just like the fact that if I'm in an area with no wireless connection, I can still use the Kindle to read a book, download a book, or just search the internet!
Who is your internet at home?
Do you have a wireless router?
With the router, your kindle will pick up that signal automatically.
Kindle has cell phone towers or satellites?
To deliver all this data, Amazon is using Sprint Nextel's 3G (third-generation) cellular network. But Kindle owners will never see a bill for that service, because the cost will be included in the price of the content. It's a rare move that might be repeated as content providers and mobile operators look for successful formulas for making money off high-speed data networks.
HSPDA modem (3G) with a fallback to EDGE/GPRS; utilizes Amazon Whispernet to provide wireless coverage via AT&T's 3G high-speed data network in the U.S. and partner networks outside of the U.S. See Wireless Terms and Conditions.
What kind of Kindle? I have the Kindle Fire and from what I can tell, that only connects through wi-fi.
Fire. The lady could not get it to work unless she went to a site with wifi. My Kindle1 works without it.
Target, signaling its growing irritation with its rival Amazon, announced on Wednesday that it would stop selling the online retailer’s Kindle e-readers.
Target, with almost 1,800 stores, is one of the bigger carriers of Kindles in the offline world, though most of the devices are sold at Amazon’s Web site.
Like other big retailers, Target has been trying to figure out how to stop Amazon shoppers from visiting Target stores to check out products, and then buy them online from Amazon. It is a practice encouraged by Amazon; over the Christmas holiday, for example, the company offered a promotion on its Price Check app that gave shoppers 5 percent off any item scanned at a store.
I like Amazon and have a Kindle Fire myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if it sees more of this kind of push back from traditional brick and mortar retailers.