Amazon has unveiled its new wireless reading device and has decided to call it the Kindle. (Is that meant to be some kind of inside Fahrenheit 451 joke?)
It uses electronic paper and ink, of course, so it looks and reads like real paper, but the surprise is that it uses Sprint’s EVDO network, redubbed Amazon Whispernet, to receive books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs from just about anywhere — at no additional charge. That is, the wireless fees are built into the prices of the media, including the ordinarily free blogs, which cost $0.99 per month via Whispernet.
Take a look at the product description page to see lots of interesting videos — which Amazon did not make embeddable, YouTube style.