Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December
Now that it's closing, it seems safe to reveal - the SIM cards from these kindles made for the best emergency data SIM that money could (not) buy.<p>Everything passed via an http proxy, with a key that could be easily extracted from the Kindle via SSH.<p>The SIM worked globally - I'd used it in China, Iran, Iraq, etc - all sorts of places that normally are not covered by providers.<p>At some point others must have abused the system, because the unlimited data got capped to 150MB a month, but in a pinch, it was an incredible tool.<p>Ditto with first generation Lime scooters that had unlocked global twillio SIMs ...