I just watch this review for Amazon Kindle 3. Its seem so cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gotyZNvtc44

QUOTE(wildquest @ Oct 18 2010, 04:31 PM)

Heya,

Just wanted to say thanks for all the assist in getting the Kindle and Cover for me! Really appreciate you handling my last minute order, then also keeping me updated throughout all the delivery of the order (my most excited news was when you told me Kindle arrived in Malaysia my first thought - so fast!)

Hopefully the package will be delivered in the hands of its brand new owner latest by tomorrow, since it got shipped to East Malaysia..

Excellent job, excellent service, and very very friendly

Keep up the good job and looking forward to bulk purchasing with you again!

Salute! Thanks for the kind compliments wildquest, glad to have helped. Its tiring to do the bulk, since you gotta make sure everything runs well,
sure hope Ive lived up to expectations. This should be my last bulk for the Kindle and anything from Amazon for this time since Ill want to concentrate back on work.
So last chance for folks to line up

QUOTE(akira2001 @ Oct 19 2010, 11:42 AM)

I just watch this review for Amazon Kindle 3. Its seem so cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gotyZNvtc44

Correction sir. It IS very cool. The difference of the effect of e-INK on the Kindle, blows ANY current available ebook reader in the market right now.
I should know, Ive compared my Kindle to the Iriver (more expensive, thats available in MPH)
Youve seen the video review up there to the Nook and Kobo.
Youve seen how I compared the Kindle to my own Iphone 4 Kindle App and Ipad Kindle App.
e-INK for reading...hands down!

Oooh

Update!


Package has arrived safe and sound back home, and delivered to the hands of the new, excited owner, who didn't know it was on the way! Lol... Super excited exploring the Kindle now...

Nice!

QUOTE(wildquest @ Oct 19 2010, 11:22 PM)

Oooh

Update!
Package has arrived safe and sound back home, and delivered to the hands of the new, excited owner, who didn't know it was on the way! Lol... Super excited exploring the Kindle now...

   

Excellent! Let me know here if you have any questions on the Kindle, ill surely help with what I little I know

QUOTE(nrwahab @ Oct 20 2010, 07:50 AM)

Nice!

Yep, thanks for the compliments, do let me know if youre interested in it. Will only close the 2nd Bulk next week.

Anyone tried the text-to-speech feature?
I found myself lovin' it so much and I feel that the male voice is much better than female one.
A very convenient feature especially during a train ride, I think!

This post has been edited by shy8629: Oct 20 2010, 08:11 PM

hey havocx, can you buy amazon books on the kindle in Malaysia? using Malaysian CC?

QUOTE(shy8629 @ Oct 20 2010, 08:10 PM)

Anyone tried the text-to-speech feature?
I found myself lovin' it so much and I feel that the male voice is much better than female one.
A very convenient feature especially during a train ride, I think!

Heh, its nice yes, but i have this feeling that youre only liking it much cuz youre a female yourself.
On some notes, the text-to-speech sounds a little robotic, but i got myself some Audible Books in there, at least not so robotic.
But yes the speakers quite good too, enjoying some of my MP3's with it.
Still in love with the e-ink though!

QUOTE(aztoys @ Oct 21 2010, 09:20 AM)

hey havocx, can you buy amazon books on the kindle in Malaysia? using Malaysian CC?

You can buy using Malaysian CC. Else you can also use Paypal. Kindle, however because of copyright of certain books, may not allow purchase of books outside of the US. That's not really a problem though.
1. You can always purchase using Malaysian CC Amazon Gift Cards. Register these cards to US address (mine is to the White House ). You can then purchase using the Amazon Gift Cards to your Kindle.
2. Some books cant be purchased because of IP address limitation. If youre using a VPN service or proxy reroute service, you can still proceed to buy these books.

Hope that helps

This post has been edited by havocx: Oct 21 2010, 09:48 AM

Wow so tempting...I'm interested but not getting it now...thinking of getting it near Christmas. Are you gonna open the bulk until December?

So i need to register a new Amazon acc. and register it under a random US address? must my e-mail be registered under the same random US address?
cant wait to read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Any idea if the Wifi+3G works in Malaysia? Worth getting?

Is the 3G locked to a particular service provider? Thanks.

QUOTE(svage98 @ Oct 21 2010, 12:09 PM)

Wow so tempting...I'm interested but not getting it now...thinking of getting it near Christmas.  Are you gonna open the bulk until December?

Right, unfortunately no, just actually running this last bulk to get one for a friend who missed out on the first bulk. Rave reviews from the first bulk is tempting him to get one. Ironically, its also for Christmas, early preparation helps So if youre interested, let me know, im still going to proceed even if there is one order only.

QUOTE(aztoys @ Oct 21 2010, 01:39 PM)

So i need to register a new Amazon acc. and register it under a random US address? must my e-mail be registered under the same random US address?
cant wait to read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy 

Amazon account is required for your use on getting the Kindle ebooks on whispersync. If you dont want the specific Kindle ebooks, ie using all the other free ebooks out there then you dont need to get an Amazon account. If you already have an Amazon account but with Malaysian address, thats fine too, except that for some copyrighted book Amazon does not allow non US account or non US ip to download the books.

But for everything else on the net, free ebooks and stuff, thats all there for you to get it in into the Kindle buddy. Let me know if there's anything specific ie a picture of or a sample of that you wanna see and ill try to show ya.

QUOTE(kAz @ Oct 21 2010, 02:01 PM)

Any idea if the Wifi+3G works in Malaysia? Worth getting?

It works just fine, just like how 3G works for the iPad. Its not locked to any provider. Works globally.
Worth getting, i personally dont think so, although forummer like ailinchia got one on my bulk. 3G allows you to sync books while youre in the middle of Langkawi away from your personal desktop and to surf the internet. You'll have to remember though that this sync will be for your books, at which before you left for Langkawi you would have already downloaded a few im sure.

Kindle holds 13,000 books and even if synching gets you 1000 books also you would not be reading all 1000 im sure
Next on Net Surfing, well, you remember its going to be in Black and White no ? The browsers pretty decent though and gets you
through to the websites fast so yes if youre planning to surf the net whilst on the beach in Langkawi for instance, its an excellent choice.

Hope that helps

QUOTE(nrwahab @ Oct 21 2010, 03:13 PM)

Is the 3G locked to a particular service provider? Thanks.

Nope, if you can see the specs for the Kindle 3G, its Unlocked for any service provider.
Heh, i hope ailinchia can come in and share her experience

Here i come..

If you're using Malaysian address for your Amazon account, you don't get any books at all. Even if you use other countries where Amazon deliver Kindle to, (eg: Thailand, Philippines) some of the books will be more expensive by USD2 compared to the US version.

For Kindle 3g, you can't change the simcard (You can always hack it. And change some files inside Kindle). If you order from Amazon US, you get AT&T simcard inside your Kindle. Amazon pays for the roaming charges. If your Amazon account is registered to US address, you can use it to surf all websites (rather than a limited subset of websites). I haven't really used it yet, since I'm trying to avoid detection from Amazon that I'm outside US, but it works. If I get detected, will see if I still can use it. If not probably I will just change the simcard inside.

If you're going to get books from Amazon, and you have 3G Kindle, make sure you choose the option "Transfer to your computer" rather than deliver to your Kindle directly. If you get the books using the 3G, you will be charged with USD2 per book delivered through 3G. That's the international Whispernet charges.

QUOTE(ailinchia @ Oct 21 2010, 05:38 PM)

Here i come..

If you're using Malaysian address for your Amazon account, you don't get any books at all. Even if you use other countries where Amazon deliver Kindle to, (eg: Thailand, Philippines) some of the books will be more expensive by USD2 compared to the US version.

For Kindle 3g, you can't change the simcard (You can always hack it. And change some files inside Kindle). If you order from Amazon US, you get AT&T simcard inside your Kindle. Amazon pays for the roaming charges. If your Amazon account is registered to US address, you can use it to surf all websites (rather than a limited subset of websites). I haven't really used it yet, since I'm trying to avoid detection from Amazon that I'm outside US, but it works. If I get detected, will see if I still can use it. If not probably I will just change the simcard inside.

If you're going to get books from Amazon, and you have 3G Kindle, make sure you choose the option "Transfer to your computer" rather than deliver to your Kindle directly. If you get the books using the 3G, you will be charged with USD2 per book delivered through 3G. That's the international Whispernet charges.

Wait what ? Amazon delivers to Thailand but no Malaysia ? What gives ? Ish ish...
Haha thanks for the info on the 3G ailinchia, its not really hacking but jailbreaking. Ive already done that on mine, nothing really major to do really and allows for some customization of the Kindle but WOW Amazon is the one paying for the roaming charges. Cool !

is it that the 3G roaming issues or book distributor issues that disallow amazon to cover their business area to our country? It seem that there is no official explanation for this. Does anyone know why they do that? Because it is really ridiculous that they can ship to Zibabwe or Angola and not our country. Just because their money value is bigger than us?

Just so that you know, Amazon don't deliver to Singapore too.

From what I read, it may be because of the censorship that our government has. Not sure though.. All rumors.

Bro...is it better to get kindle 3g+wifi or just the wifi only? Price is different right?

QUOTE(akira2001 @ Oct 21 2010, 10:23 PM)

is it that the 3G roaming issues or book distributor issues that disallow amazon to cover their business area to our country? It seem that there is no official explanation for this. Does anyone know why they do that? Because it is really ridiculous that they can ship to Zibabwe or Angola and not our country. Just because their money value is bigger than us?

Actually its not the coverage of AT&T over here since remember, we can use our personal sim card as well, Digi, Maxis, Celcom and the rarely heard UMobile hehe.. Its actually the book distribution. Even on Amazon.com the main US site, some books cant be delivered to US based Kindle simply because they are copyrighted to only be distributed to the UK. So there's that limitation there. Even in Malaysia erm....Playboy is not allowed to be distributed so eheh officially we cant get it, but enterprising individuals...well, they could get em if they wanted to hehe

QUOTE(ailinchia @ Oct 21 2010, 10:36 PM)

Just so that you know, Amazon don't deliver to Singapore too.

From what I read, it may be because of the censorship that our government has. Not sure though.. All rumors.

Not censorship ailinchia, distribution deals

Thanks Havocx,
Let me post the answers from you to my question in our PM exchanges.

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So here's the benefits of 3G in Malaysia. Amazon uses Whyspernet for synching, ie your books that you have purchased, would be able to synchronize even if youre without Wifi connection. Meaning you'll always have access to your books and buying new books whenever you feel like it.

Also with 3G since Kindle comes with a browser, you'll be able to access websites and data when you are on the move at anytime you please. Since Kindle has a super long battery life, youre 3G will last about 15 days without needing recharging if youre always surfing using 3G. Its also not locked to any service providers.

Now the cons : My personal thoughts.
Kindle holds 33,000 books. Synching in an extra 1000 books before you go to a trip up Mount Kinabalu will be waaay more books than you can finish. Also, if you happen to bring the Kindle up, and still want to sync, remember ebooks are just about 50kb for a 950page book, it will be a super quick sync, something you would already do earlier before going up the mountain smile.gif

Next on browsing. Nowadays you can also browse on your mobile phone. The Kindle has a decent browser, in fact its quite good, except you have to remember it will be in black and white. So yes you can surf the net, do your banking online and things like that, but the experience may not be as fulfilling since the screen is just black and white.

But of course thats my personal thoughts only, the only person i know with a Kindle 3G on Lowyat forum is ailinchia, she visits the thread too now and then, perhaps you can see her responses to help you decide, if you ask me, and my personal use of Kindle, the 3G would be wasted on me. nod.gif
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Added on October 22, 2010, 4:35 pmHavocx,

What's "Kindle DM List (*Special Bulk)" ?
Anything different from normal bulk?


This post has been edited by isaac_c: Oct 22 2010, 04:35 PM