Bruce, once again taking both sides, sorry, I must ask of nook's wifi connection will connect to most wifi hotspots or just those provided by B&N??? i.e. can you use your nook's wifi to download books at airports? Thanks!!! Michael On Thu, 6 May 2010, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
On 05/05/10 20:42, James Adcock wrote:
Que with its relationship with B&N also seems now to have picked up the wifi/3g "virus" of not allowing the owner of the machine to do what they like with their OWN wifi/3g connection. http://www.que.com/
As a nook owner, I'd like to dispel the misinformation repeated several times by James in this thread. While B&N limits the 3G access to their site, there are no limits on the wifi connection. For example, I've browsed Amazon on my nook using the wifi connection at a B&N store.
I don't have a problem with B&N or Amazon limiting the use of the 3G connection when the reader is using the SIM provided with the reader, since they're the ones paying for the connection. With the nook, it is possible to replace the B&N SIM with your own. I know that web enabled apps available for a rooted nook are able to use 3G when you've replaced the B&N SIM with your own SIM with a data plan. I believe the B&N browser added to the 1.3 firmware is only able to use wifi though. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d