I have an ad-supported Kindle Keyboard 3G - and the ads suck.
Not because the ads themselves suck, but because it drains my battery. With my wireless radios on, it'll drain the battery in a week without my touching the thing.
With the radios off, it lasts for months without use. I never have a problem with picking it up and the thing's out of battery, whereas I do encounter it when I forget to turn off the radios - a far more common situation than I first thought would happen. And it sucks doubly much as I couldn't pay to get rid of the ads after the fact.
Suffice to say, if you buy it as a gift... really, get the ad-free one. It makes for a better gift.
But at least I get 50 MB of free 3G access a month, anywhere in the world.
... With my wireless radios on, it'll drain the battery in a week without my touching the thing. With the radios off, it lasts for months without use....
I had three credit card compromises in October-November, and I have traced it to Wi-Fi links from Kindle.
I had three credit card compromises in October-November, and I have traced it to Wi-Fi links from Kindle.
Not a chance.
Your kindle can only buy books from the Amazon online store. All you need to do is log into Amazon.com with your already existing account and your credit card details will be remembered. The only time you'll even be inputting a CC number using your kindle is if you're adding a new card and there's no reason to be doing that 3 times in one month. Even then, the transaction is SSL encrypted and you've got to be next to someone very sophisticated to get that signal intercepted.
It only affects the lock screen.
The source was public wi-fi used by my Kindle HD+ when online. I was careless and used that link while on a trip. I caught it immediately, and was even notified by email by my credit card people - bogus charges were stopped and a fraud investigation initiated. Anyway, that would all be another thread. As for the wife's Paperwhite, it is as you say - the only link is to Amazon's Kindle store.