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Originally Posted by Hollow Man
We get it...you don't like it.  None of us have evidence yet to support this (since the product is still very new), but my opinion is that most people wouldn't notice any loss of battery life, until they got to 10 years or so of use. And who cares after that long?! If one is the sort to spend this much on a Kindle, just buy the new one again!
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Of course we have evidence to support this. It's how lithium-ion batteries work.
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Originally Posted by barryem
I have a Voyage. I considered getting the Oasis but fortunately they ran out before I ordered one so I had to wait and while I waited I thought about that battery. The internal battery in the Oasis is 1/6 the size of the battery in the Voyage. The cover provides additional capacity but it only keeps the internal battery charged. The Oasis isn't powered by it.
Since a typical battery is good for between 500 and 1000 charges that internal battery should use up it's lifetime of charges 6 times faster. And that's why I don't have an Oasis.
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This says it all.