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We just got a quick hands-on video with the browser! Amazon also clarified a bit of Silk’s functionality for us. Apparently the device browser loads the HTML while EC2 is sucking in the images, and so once the device is ready to start requesting those images, EC2 has them on offer. Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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