Reverse Engineer Finds Kindle's Hidden Features

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 4, 2008 @05:01AM from the under-the-hood dept.

bensafrickingenius writes "CNET's Crave site has an interesting article on Amazon's Kindle eBook reader, and the extensive reverse-engineering that fans of the device have accomplished. The site specifically points out the work of Igor Skochinsky at the Reversing Everything website. His work on the Kindle's Root Shell has revealed some fascinating goodies: 'Among the ones uncovered and described on his blog are a basic photo viewer, a minesweeper game, and most interesting, location technology that uses the Kindle's CDMA networking to pinpoint its position. There also are some basic location-based services that call up a Google Maps view to show where you are and nearby gas stations and restaurants.'"

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Flagged. by headkase · 2008-01-04 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

...location technology that uses the Kindle's CDMA networking to pinpoint its position...

Ok, that's it I'm never buying my "Catcher in the Rye" through Kindle... (Apologies to Mel Gibson).

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Shh.
Re:eBook readers are all wrong by ubuwalker31 · 2008-01-04 06:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Okay, I's like to explain what makes ebook readers so bad and what needs to be done to fix them.
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Thanks to that first sentence, I read the rest of your insightful comment with a really freakin annoying Jar Jar Binks voice.
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Thanks

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Meesa gonna upmod yousa comment, since Isa hava mod points...