Surfing the Web
It would be a shame to let all that free WhisperNet go to waste, wouldn’t it? After all, your Kindle is connected to the web anytime it can get a wireless signal, so why not make the most of it? Bring on the Internet, baby!
In this regard, your Kindle isn’t quite as enthusiastic as you are. In fact, it really hasn’t even made up its mind about the whole Internet thing. Much of the information that follows falls into the “experimental” category, the very word Amazon chooses to describe the Kindle web browser. Don’t worry. You won’t be doing anything that Amazon didn’t account for when it shipped a browser in the Kindle. Calling the Kindle web browser Experimental is just Amazon’s way of telling you, “If it doesn’t work, don’t blame us.”
Note: Along with the announcement of the third-generation Kindle, Amazon also announced a new “experimental” browser based on Webkit, a web display technology relied on by prominent mobile phones like the iPhone, Android phones, and Blackberries. Hopefully, this new browser will be better at showing web pages than the current Kindle browser.
Visiting Websites
The web browser on the Kindle is, getting right down to it, unimpressive. But then, Amazon isn’t selling a mobile web browser, it’s selling an electronic reader. The majority of your favorite websites won’t look right. On that note, and before you go surfing the web, you need to understand the difference between regular websites and their mobile counterparts, as well as the ...
