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Originally Posted by DNSB
Rather odd. I just did a side by side compare of an Aura HD, Aura H2O and Aura One with the same firmware revision, the same copy of the ebook I tested with loaded to the internal storage. I set the font, font size, line spacing, etc. to put the same amount of text on each screen.
The Aura One seems to boot faster the either the HD or the H2O which makes sense since it's internal fixed storage should be faster than the uSD cards used by the HD and H2O.
I found the page turn times on all three were close enough that I could see no consistent difference though I felt the One was slightly faster but then it's the newer toy.
If I changed the font size to use the same font size on each, the Aura One put more text on each page requiring fewer page turns with no change I could notice in the speed of the page changes.
Oddly, the reviews I found that compared the Oasis to the Aura One tended ot use phrases like: "Both configurations led to a decent performance speed, with negligible difference between the two."
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How could you use the same firmware for the Aura HD, Aura H2O and Aura One? The Aura One is running 4.xxxxxxx and the latest versions at least for the HD is 3.19xxxxx.
When I ran my psuedo tests I just took the 3 readers that we have - Kindle Oasis, Aura HD and Aura One each of which is running the latest firmware for the device. Each reader had a different set of books on them.
I set the oasis and One next to each other and the Oasis boots noticeably faster. When I repested the test with the HD and the One the HD booted faster. The page turns were also faster but this may be because the One was set to refresh on every page and I'm nnot sure what the HD was set for. I do think that the One reacts to finger presses 'better' - quick enough, accurate enough and doesn't require extra presses than the HD. The Oasis is faster though. The One's screen is phenomenal and the build quality is better than the HD. I do wish they had thrown in a faster processor though.