Amazon Disables 3G Web Browsing For New 3G Kindle Touch

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Amazon‘s going to disable 3G web browsing on their upcoming ‘Kindle Touch 3G’ — even though it was a prominent feature of the last generation of Kindles. Amazon will still allow web browsing on the Kindle Touch 3G using a local Wi-Fi connection, but it’s one of many unsettling details emerging from Amazon’s announcement last week. Apparently Amazon’s cloud will now also include a list of personal documents that you’re mailing to your Kindle. And the on-screen keyboard for Amazon’s bargain $79 Kindles won’t be a touchscreen keyboard, so users will have to nudge the controller repeatedly to gradually navigate from one key to the next.”