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I like my Voyage despite that, but I certainly hope the Oasis will have a more even frontlight. |
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04-18-2016, 04:14 PM | #62 |
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I've posted pics of mine. If I hold it upside down, there is a gradient. Fortunately, I don't normally read upside down. To me, the screen is perfect.
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I got my voyage close to launch and it has a yellow gradient at the top it's just not enough to worry about.
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04-18-2016, 05:59 PM | #64 |
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I'm a person who sees the gradient. It took 4 tries for me to get a Voyage I was happy with. It had a little yellow at the top but after using it for awhile I really couldn't see it any longer. After reading your post this morning I took a picture of my Voyage to post as a perfect one and sure enough the gradient showed up in the photo so it is still there - my eyes have just gotten used to it and don't see it.
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04-18-2016, 06:16 PM | #65 |
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I was hoping for that also along with other new features, but I think I'm going to like the Oasis. I'm keeping the Voyage because I often like to read while eating and the Origami case is perfect for that and I really don't notice the gradient while reading.
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04-18-2016, 06:19 PM | #66 |
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I didn't buy my Voyage in order to see if it had a fault (and especially not in a dark room with the LEDs at full max). I bought it in order to enhance my reading experience. It does that, a lot. To some extent, it's an optimist/pessimist glass half-full/glass half-empty thing.
If I were looking at color images, then a color tint or lighting gradient would matter. But I'm not; I'm reading black & white text. So perhaps one looks around for a Voyage with a minimal color change, so that you yourself don't notice it (though I have never seen more than this one Voyage, and I like it just fine), but I'm reading text, not critiquing color samples. As long as the difference is not enough to bother *me*, then don't tell me my Voyage is flawed. (I don't even see a difference unless I scrutinize it and look for it.) |
04-18-2016, 08:51 PM | #67 |
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I guess all of the hardcopy books I read had shadows, gradients etc from the external lighting. I just lived with it. Same thing here: sometimes I see blotches on my Voyage. Sometimes I don't. Bottom line is I guess I don't expect the screen to be entirely smooth. Especially if we want to get closer (as the Amazon people say) to a "paper experience".
I have the Omoton cover, which is light and simple. It makes the kindle more like a book. I like the feeling of it rather than the hard plastic of the device. Also somehow it manages to stay closed in my purse, which is great. |
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The screen is glass.
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04-19-2016, 08:49 AM | #69 |
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There's something "wrong". I went through 7 of them from launch to as recent as November last year. Gave up.
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04-19-2016, 09:29 AM | #70 |
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Totally love my Voyage, and I even love the origami cover. I didn't think I'd use it as a sand much, but turns out it's more useful than I imagined.
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04-19-2016, 10:53 AM | #71 |
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I'm glad I can't see the gradient in my Voyage screen.
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04-19-2016, 11:13 AM | #72 |
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It doesn't have an anti-reflective coating. The surface of the glass is etched to reduce reflections.
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04-20-2016, 02:57 AM | #73 |
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I'm thinking of getting a Voyage. Should I wait until the Oasis comes out next week? Any chance it will be on sale for less than $200 then or anytime soon? Might just try a refurbished one for $150
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04-21-2016, 08:24 AM | #75 |
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My Voyage doesn't have "awful rainbow colours".
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