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Originally Posted by Josieb1
Hubby wants that model as he wants a small iPhone. The 6S is too big for his pocket.
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Ditto. I don't WANT a big phone. I still have an Apple iphone 5, and I'll wait for it to break. But then I will buy the new SE and be very grateful there IS a new small model available. I actually wrote to Apple to tell them why I wasn't buying the 6 or larger phones. So the SE is in response to consumer demand.
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Originally Posted by tlrowley
I pre-ordered 
I'm still using the 1st gen PW, and for the past few months I've been suffering from some yet-to-be-diagnosed inflammatory arthritis in my hands & wrists which make holding my PW just about unbearable. I've been wanting to upgrade, so for me it's all about the weight. The difference in price between a Voyage + case and the Oasis (with case) isn't very much.
That being said, I'm not surprised that few people are talking about upgrading from the 3rd gen PW or Voyage - those are both great readers and there's not a whole lot of "new" in the Oasis. |
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
To be honest, you might be better of with a Voyage because you can adjust the amount of pressure needed to press the buttons.
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I'm not so sure of that.
I have a Voyage, plus some nice new hand arthritis (thanks, post cancer meds which are accelerating my aging .... grrrr ). The Voyage haptic buttons are nice, but not a complete solution. The K4 buttons were a softer press, and could be pressed with the side of my thumb, way down at the base of the thumb. The haptic buttons require the tip of the thumb. I've also got some finger-tip sensitivity, bad enough that on some days I can't touch things with any right fingertips at all, not even to turn the pages on the Voyage, hapticly or just with the touch. So I use the left hand ... but maybe the Oasis will be a help. It'll have real buttons again (lets hope they are soft, and not hard) and I think the ergonomic weighting will be a big help too. The several reviews quoted all seem to say that the accelerometer will flip the text on the fly, when you switch the kindle between hands.
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Originally Posted by NullNix
I have more or less the same reasons -- 1st-gen PW user, and I have RSI kept under control by an ergonomic keyboard that costs easily three times what the Oasis does. I spend about as much time reading as I do using said keyboard, and much of that is on the Kindle, so it seems penny-wise and pound-foolish not to go for something that is clearly ergonomically better. It's a shame the squeezy page-turn things and especially the light sensor didn't come across, but the ergonomics alone, and the reduced weight, decided it for me. (Also, the battery case brings back one of the PW1's nicest features, which I've definitely got used to: the huge long battery life.)
However... most people do not bother with ergonomically optimal devices (there's a reason proper ergonomic keyboards are so expensive: they're halfway towards the insane 'medical device' markup). So the Oasis is unusual in that respect alone: it's a device built for its ergonomics aimed at the relatively-price-insensitive part of the mass market. It'll be interesting to see how it does. (And I'll post here saying how I think it compares to the PW1 once I've had a try with it.)
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Yes. The Oasis may sell best to the market that NEEDS it. However, the squeezy page-turn things weren't all that ergonomically sensitive (I've got them already); maybe these real buttons will prove more helpful.
I *had* had myself convinced that I wouldn't need a new Voyage 2. I would save my money. However, now that it is not a Voyage 2, but an ergonomic Oasis which might help my weaknesses -- I think I'll go pre-order. (I can rationalize that I did just trade in two K4's and a K3, even though that money is actually already spent.)