Anyone looking to browse the web on their Kindle Touch should find a
different device. Amazon's popular new
ereader has essentially killed 3G web browsing as
revealed in a sneaky post on Amazon's Customer
Service forums. In the post, the Amazon Kindle Team says: We apologize
for the confusion. Our new Kindle Touch
3G enables you to connect to the Kindle Store,
download books and periodicals, and access Wikipedia
– all over 3G or Wi-Fi. Experimental web browsing
(outside of Wikipedia) on Kindle Touch 3G is only available over
Wi-Fi. This means that 3G will work for aspects of the Amazon
ecosystem but "experimental web
browsing" (ie. anything else on the Internet) will have to be done
over Wi-Fi. It's unclear why
Amazon decided to kill 3G functionality if not to keep its users on
its own sites. The announcement
is especially unwelcome news for users hoping to check email or browse
when on vacation
(Amazon's 3G service works worldwide). The Kindle Keyboard 3G will
still allow for "experimental web browsing" over 3G and Wi-Fi. The
rest of the forum comments have been surprisingly civil with most
users debating whether to
stick with Kindle's other, 3G-enabled devices.