Comments on: Wikipedia works on International Kindles in the UK

By: Manuel Molina

Manuel Molina — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:27:48 +0000

@Anselmo , can you tell me what special steps did you take so you can use gmail on your Kindle 2 from Spain ?
I’m from Spain, too.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:33:59 +0000

I live in Ukraine. Wikipedia (english only) works!

By: DblD

DblD — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:51:51 +0000

+1 in South Africa.
Had no luck with images though.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:27:58 +0000

The English Wikipedia also works in South Korea. Though S.Korea is not officially supported country, I managed to bought a kindle using my American credit card. At first, ‘my country’ was registered as the US and I could browse any site that I wanted. Then, to avoid $2 fee for whispernet downloading, I changed ‘my country’ to S.Korea and only Wikipedia worked. It seems like I can switch the ‘my country’ setting so that one time I can get free whispernet download and the other time I can use Internet.

By: Prazzie

Prazzie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:13:17 +0000

I can confirm that Wikipedia works in South Africa. Images load just fine. All the other default bookmarks are disabled.

By: António

António — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:35:57 +0000

The same here in Portugal: I only have access to the english Wikipedia site.
But a funny situation occurred when I received the International Kindle: I had a registered US postal address on my Amazon.com account (besides my portuguese one). And because I had the US address active on “manage your Kindle” when I received the Kindle, I was able to browse other sites, apparently without limitation. But I was charged 1.49 USD when I transfered wirelessly to my Kindle the books I had previously bought. Later, I called Amazon. They suggested deleting the US postal address and refunded those transfer fees.

By: DIGI Hack

DIGI Hack — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:35:33 +0000

IT works in Japan, it seems no limitations in the browser.

Now question is whether Amazon is going to charge the fee for the data transfer? We know that the roaming charge is added on top of the book prices for international user but how about the browsing?

By: Asterix

Asterix — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:35:44 +0000

Wikipedia works with images in Luxembourg, too!

By: ujx

ujx — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:17:40 +0000

It works well in Hong Kong. Web sites other than wiki and amazon can be visited. I can receive and sent email through gmail. The speed of loading web page is slow.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:18:52 +0000

Wikipedia & general browsing works well in Mexico. Hope the feature is kept at no cost. Totally killer!

By: Anselmo Martinez

Anselmo Martinez — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:17:55 +0000

Mine just came in yesterday, and yep, wikipedia works fully in Spain, images and all, as does gmail. Went through a few registering issues with the device, but now it’s working smooth.

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:30:49 +0000

Ad: Admin

I sent you 2 photos – picture on “Puck magazine” page on mobile wikipedia and “Czech republic” article on normal (non-mobile) wikipedia. Other sites don’t work.

By: Benoit

Benoit — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:46:27 +0000

I stand corrected: images now load.
Yesterday they would not load but since this afternoon, it works.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:36:36 +0000

Bert, photo would be great – you can mail it to me – see contact section at the bottom

By: Seb

Seb — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:02:24 +0000

Got my Kindle today, wikipedia works as above, the big change I noted is that it works WITH images. Loaded a page with almost 1mb of data on it… Wonder how amazon will manage to pay for this.

Great feature, even thoug eInk isn’t that good for browsing. Now we will be able to sort out all these Pub debates on site ;)

By: Benoit

Benoit — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:12:38 +0000

Same behaviour in Belgium: Wikipedia works, other websites (including Google) don’t. The images don’t load however.
Note that Wikipedia is explicitly listed as a feature on the Kindle site.

By: aki

aki — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:20 +0000

I live in Japan, and just received my kindle 2. The basic web browser is working fine here as advertised.

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:51:51 +0000

Czech republic, mobile English wikipedia works – quite slowly BUT with images (!). I can post a photo somewhere as a proof…

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:49:45 +0000

Wikipedia English works in Germany, too.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:12:22 +0000

I can confirm for the Hong Kong region web browsing is fully supported (well as full as their US counterpart anyway).

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:02:00 +0000

i live in Hong Kong and the web browser is, of course, work for me. it works fine and surprisingly with images too.
Just started subscibe IHT asian version, but sadly, it does not include images. hope there will be Financial Times Asian version soon.
Everything looks nice, except the kindle responses slower that i thought about, but i can accept it.
Really wish someone will work on the unicode hack, i wish to read Chinese on this machine.
also, would like to send an urge to Chinese Book Publishers, it is really an urgent call to you guy to act now, to provide legel way to download ebook, or, privacy would be a huge problem in the future.

By: millin

millin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:51:17 +0000

I lived in Switzerland, and en.wikipedia is ok, seems other languages not.
And no pics on pages.

By: Chen

Chen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:12:44 +0000

Just get my Kindle in Norway. Yes, the wikipedia can be accessed, only wikipeda.Actually it’s a wikipedia mobile version.

By: beatm

beatm — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:16:18 +0000

Wikipedia (English only) works in Switzerland

By: admin

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:25:58 +0000

I believe that Savory is off for now along with other hacks until someone figures out a way to install hack updates on K2i. I’m working on it too but with little success for far.