Thanks for the update.
It is really interesting to hear the different tolerance level for the complexity of tech products and also the tolerance level for the battle to get any particular product to work.
My level of tolerance for the quirks is fairly high if I can eventually get it to work reliably — my wife’s is zero.
She can barely stand a PC and if it isn’t flawlessly hooked to the internet she is one hacked girl.
I have decided to retain my dial up connection because I can simply disconnect it and have it redial. I tried having my puter on my daughters wi-fi years ago and yes I was able to get images, PDF files and videos much faster but it was like living on an urban inner city highway system, some times of the day like early morning its a breeze, but then you get rush hour traffic.
I think that was the best way to describe a rural broadband connection in Alaska, its like an old fashion party line.
It gets filled up at certain times of the day. But regardless Amazon should really get the Fire with a 3G option just like its other Kindle devices. Yes it will send up the cost but it should still be half the cost of the other tablets.
Right now my limit would be $300 for a tablet, full internet connection on 3G for simple stuff like accessing web pages, news and mail. For any serious downloads like movies then yes I see why it has to use wi-fi, and probably exactly why Amazon decided to keep it wi-fi only, they cannot sell high dollar movies and deliver that product by 3-G as yet.
maybe a 4G?