Simply the opposite day a good friend of mine requested me if I assumed she ought to get a Kindle 3G or an Apple iPad. She needed to get a tool that she might use to browse the web whereas she sat on the bleachers at her son’s ball video games. However this is the factor: she did not need a month-to-month contract, and she or he did not need to pay a payment to make use of the web.

So I did just a little little bit of analysis to assist her out and discovered one thing very cool concerning the Kindle 3G. Are you aware what it’s?

The Kindle 3G has free wifi! Yep. It is 100% free.

No catches – I checked.

So upon my advice, my good friend acquired the Amazon Kindle. She loves it, particularly as a result of she would not should pay any charges.

Are you questioning how Amazon can promote a tool that may get on-line with out month-to-month charges or a contract that locks you in? As a result of I positive was. I dug just a little additional into the wonderful print and skim precisely how Amazon pulls it off.

Here is the way it works: Amazon sells two various kinds of Kindles. There’s one which has Wifi enabled, nevertheless it solely works if you happen to’re on a Wifi community, like your individual dwelling wi-fi or an web café with free Wifi. They value this Kindle at $140.

Then they promote one other sort of Kindle, the Kindle 3G, at $189. That further $49 hole is what pays on your 3G entry. However that is the one payment you will ever pay for simply plain browsing. So for Digital free Wifi all through the lifetime of your system, you do not even should shell out $50.

How cool is that? That is lower than the price of one month of cell service for many cell telephones!

Now, there’s just one caveat: If you wish to obtain any information, like your e-reader subscriptions to the New York Instances, you will should pay a payment. However if you happen to solely need to browse, there aren’t any charges.

So what precisely does this further $49 pay for? It pays for worldwide entry to the Web on a 3G GSM community. This is identical sort of community AT&T makes use of; solely with Amazon it is most likely extra dependable than AT&T’s.

So if you have to take your Kindle 3G to, say, China, you will nonetheless have free 3G web entry wherever close to a GSM community. GSM, by the way in which, is the worldwide mobile community, in contrast to the Verizon community or different US-based cell networks.

The opposite factor my good friend favored concerning the Kindle 3G was the keyboard. As an alternative of citing a contact pad, there is a everlasting, fastened keyboard beneath the display screen on the Kindle. Thus, if you happen to’ve acquired pudgy fingers or simply do not like typing on a display screen, you will most likely love this Kindle.

But it surely’s the display screen on the Kindle 3G that actually stood out to her. She advised me that she will learn the Kindle display screen in broad daylight on the ball video games. Evidently, it has one thing to do with the show being completely different than the Apple iPad.

As an alternative of supplying you with a crystal-like show that shines just like the dickens within the daylight, you get a white-page show with a matte background. So no extra glare, and no extra squinting together with your eyes and adjusting your place each which method to attempt to keep away from the daylight.