Amazon Unveils New Kindle Tablets > 250 MB / Month???

250 MB / Month???

reply to RRedline
Your point?

AT&T is the underlying provider here. They aren't going to undercut themselves. The 250MB is there so you can surf the web (no video) and download eBooks (not TV episodes) while on the go. For those activities on a tablet, it's a completely reasonable amount.

Agreed, it's a surf the web and email initial offering. I'm surprized amazon could get them this low for an entire year.
To put this in perspective your paying $4.19 a month for this 250mb a month plan.

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Yeah, gotta agree on that. With wi-fi as common as it is, finding access won't be an issue. And, while you aren't going to do much heavy duty access with that cap, it's entirely reasonable for light stuff when you can't get wi-fi.

And what do you expect for less than five bucks a month?

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reply to MovieLover76

Think about it this way: with that little data, you'll make a concerted effort to use the tablet on WiFi whenever possible.

If you do that and don't tether (speaking from experience with my iPad on a 1GB plan), you'll stay under 250MB.

I think there's going to be A LOT of people going over the cap without realizing just how little their "plan" allows them to use it (most people don't know what to relate a MB with). I totally understand that from a cost standpoint, it's a decent deal. I just think that a 250 MB plan is extremely light, especially considering how quickly one could use up the entire month's cap in less than two minutes.

Honestly, it sounds like a trap to me. Sucker people into buying the plan, then AT&T will profit from the overages.
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My bet is that there won't be any overages. At 50% of your cap the Kindle will let you know. At 75%? Same thing. At 90%? Same thing. At 100%, the service will ust shut off for the rest of the month.

reply to ISurfTooMuch
Where do you people get the notion the world is covered with free wifi? I had a wifi only tablet for 2 days before I got sick of it and took it back. And just because you are within wifi range doesn’t means it’s a good connection. Last month I took a weekend road trip into Ohio. Both hotels we stayed at offered free wifi. At the Quality Inn, it was a pathetic sub-1Mb connection, at the Comfort Inn it was slightly better, but not much. In both areas I was able to connect to Sprints wimax network with my tablet and get about 10Mb downstream. I’m on a 3GB data plan and typically use about 2GB worth of data a month on the tablet. The Evo View will be my road tablet, for home use I’m strongly considering getting Sony’s new Xperia S tablet for it’s integration capabilities with home theater gear.
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reply to BF69
I don’t want to tether my phone. I want devices to have their own independent data connections. And besides, in my situation with Sprint, my phone is LTE not Wimax. With limited LTE coverage at this time, the best I could do is 3G if I tethered. My tablet has built in wimax allowing much faster access in areas that have coverage. And before anyone says it, yes I know that Sprint stopped launching wimax, coverage is limited, but there are quite a few areas where it’s ‘unofficially launched’.
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reply to ISurfTooMuch
Let's just take a common example I face practically every day.

I like to listen to a certain nationally syndicated live talk show host who used to broadcast sorta-kinda locally (if one can consider Rochester, NY "local" to the Buffalo area). After being time shifted from 9a-11a to 11p-1a, I began listening on either a Web browser on my desktop and over 900MHz wireless headphones, or over a Palm T|X or an Android tablet and WiFi. When he was live on OTA AM radio, I could walk the dog around the neighborhood, and still receive him quite handily. The lots here are about 15.25m wide, give or take. I can only go about 5 or 6 lots before the wireless headphones will "give out." WiFi, I'd be really lucky to get 3, more often just one, maybe two.

For the brief few weeks I was at my last (contract) job, I was issued a Verizon BlackBerry which would allow me to do such streaming. With a cellular connection, no problem. This Amazon tablet would as well, but as you note, it'd probably eat my monthly allotment alive in no time flat. For WiFi, I'd have to go to at least every third house, and beg for an Internet connection, and that's presuming there would be sufficient coverage.

As it is, Sparky gets walked near the top of the hour, where the last segment is usually like a minute or two long usually filled with babble about what's coming up next hour, followed by about 3 minutes of ads, and then 6 or so minutes of news and ads. And I still miss a big chunk of the next hour, depending on how many trees and utility poles he wants to sniff that day.

Point is, it's a nice concept to think of (open) WiFi as being nearly ubiquitous, but especially for this use case, it's not nearly close enough.
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Yep, when I got my first tablet, it was the HTC Flyer. Got it at the Best Buy in your neck of the words, at the Galleria, I was all excited, I unboxed it in my car. Here I am, in the parking lot of the biggest mall in WNY ready to play with my new toy and no wifi to speak of. I had to go down the road a bit to the Wegman’s on Dick Rd to use their café wifi. It was at the point I knew not having continuous data connectivity when I was on the go would be a problem. Two days later I took it back and went to the Sprint Store in the Sam’s Club Plaza and got the Evo View. I can’t say I’ve found a whole lot of free wifi here in the Buffalo area, or in Rochester for that matter. For that I’m grateful of data plans and Sprints unlimited data on smartphones.
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