Comments on: Amazon stops using Sprint for the Kindle http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/amazon-stops-using-sprint-for-the-kindle/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel Udsen http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/amazon-stops-using-sprint-for-the-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1148574 Daniel Udsen Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:23:43 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31657#comment-1148574 And then in a few years they will get a better deal with t-mobile(formerly Deutche Telecom) in order to provide international coverage for their wispernet and somewhere down the line in 10 years they will have moved to UMTS and some 3d firm and turns off the wisperne for the existing kindles because well they have an expected lifespan on 3 years anyway. Somewhere in this the economics of owning a locked in kindle starts taking it's toll and theres no getting off the kindle without leaving every purchase behind. As the practical reality kicks in theres the economics of ereaders are completely reduculus, with ebook tiltes being prized around the same as mass market paperbacks and the reader having a limited lifespan. And then in a few years they will get a better deal with t-mobile(formerly Deutche Telecom) in order to provide international coverage for their wispernet and somewhere down the line in 10 years they will have moved to UMTS and some 3d firm and turns off the wisperne for the existing kindles because well they have an expected lifespan on 3 years anyway.

Somewhere in this the economics of owning a locked in kindle starts taking it’s toll and theres no getting off the kindle without leaving every purchase behind.

As the practical reality kicks in theres the economics of ereaders are completely reduculus, with ebook tiltes being prized around the same as mass market paperbacks and the reader having a limited lifespan.

]]> By: HeavyG http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/amazon-stops-using-sprint-for-the-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1148572 HeavyG Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:38:22 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31657#comment-1148572 Kindles probably just use the ESN as the identifier and do not have an actual phone number or IP address. They probably went with CDMA because that was the protcol in use by the only vendor they could reach an agreement with at the time of the original Kindle introduction. Now that there is widespread interest over the approach that Amazon took with the Kindle - ebooks/wireless cell - everyone wants to get in on the action so getting telco vendors is likely easier and more competitive. Kindles probably just use the ESN as the identifier and do not have an actual phone number or IP address.

They probably went with CDMA because that was the protcol in use by the only vendor they could reach an agreement with at the time of the original Kindle introduction. Now that there is widespread interest over the approach that Amazon took with the Kindle – ebooks/wireless cell – everyone wants to get in on the action so getting telco vendors is likely easier and more competitive.

]]> By: Jim Wilson http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/amazon-stops-using-sprint-for-the-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1148569 Jim Wilson Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:22:07 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31657#comment-1148569 No surprise, and the right decision, but it makes me wonder how long my Kindle2 will actually be supported, given Sprint's problems. Of course, Bezos could always switch us legacy owners to Verizon. The bottom line, though, is that I'm really looking forward to the iPad; the iPhone has always been GSM, and I expect its progeny to follow suit. Idle question: Does my Kindle2 have a "phone number" in the usual sense, or just an IP address on Sprint's data network? Or is that a meaningless question? No surprise, and the right decision, but it makes me wonder how long my Kindle2 will actually be supported, given Sprint’s problems. Of course, Bezos could always switch us legacy owners to Verizon. The bottom line, though, is that I’m really looking forward to the iPad; the iPhone has always been GSM, and I expect its progeny to follow suit.

Idle question: Does my Kindle2 have a “phone number” in the usual sense, or just an IP address on Sprint’s data network? Or is that a meaningless question?

]]> By: Dave Robinson http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/amazon-stops-using-sprint-for-the-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1148568 Dave Robinson Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:09:36 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31657#comment-1148568 This was so obvious that I'm surprised they ever went with CDMA. This was so obvious that I’m surprised they ever went with CDMA.

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