Kindle Easter Eggs: We have GPS!

28Dec07

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Yes – The Kindle has GPS (mind you, not the real GPS but rather CDMA location based) and even more Easter egg goodness:

- Google Maps, show current location (Alt-1 while in the browser)
- Play Minesweeper (Alt-M)
- Make a screenshot (Alt-Shift-G)
- show time from the home screen (Alt-T)

There are quite a few more hidden treasures that I learned over at Igor Skochinsky’s blog

Here are more GPS shortcuts:

Alt-2 find gas station nearby
Alt-3 find restaurants nearby
Alt-5 find custom keyword nearby
Alt-D dump debug info to the log and toggle highlight default item
Alt-Z toggle zone drawing and show log

There is also a picture viewer and of course a bunch of diagnostic shortcuts as well. Thanks Igor!

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Tags: GPS, kindle

37 Responses to “Kindle Easter Eggs: We have GPS!”

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1 Irving on December 29, 2007 said:

Since my book is carried on the Amazon Kindle, I am glad there are even more reasons to buy one Thanks for the info.

Happy New Year!

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2 ericdano on December 29, 2007 said:

Boring. The Kindle is so 1990s…….

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3 youtube downloader on July 8, 2008 said:

hoho,it’s very cool.

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6 jeff smith on April 27, 2009 said:

I was trying to get the gps functions enabled on the kindle 2 vs original kindle. The alt commannds don’t seem to work. Do you know which commands might work?

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