Amazon announces Kindle Oasis

[Yolina]

This whole battery thing reminds me of when battery life magically doubled at some point several years ago (by going from reading for 1h a day to reading for 30 minutes a day in their estimates )

[howyoudoin]

Originally Posted by ApK

I suspect even just knowing it's upside down on the back would be jarring to some.

The logo on the back cannot be "upside down" when held either right or left handed because:

[blackcatw81]

Originally Posted by Atunah

I am a voracious reader that still misses the ergo design of the first kindle. The wedge shape, but it was much heavier. I imagine reading on it would be like a dream holding it.


I love that in a way they were going back to what the initial idea was. When the kindle was designed for the reader and for the hand of the reader. Then they all got as flat and thin as tablets and phones. Its like we come full circle, just with much better specs.

My hands and wrists are asking for the Oasis.

I'm part of of the "bothered by the off center screen" group and if you want an old-looking-and-feeling "kindle" you should buy an Hanlin v6.. I don't know the exact model, here in Italy was rebranded as Telecom Biblet - with 3g and no touchscreen.

As for the Oasis, I keep my ereaders almost always with two hands and find it very easy and automatic to press the buttons outside the screen on each side..
I don't know what more to say.. For that price I'd buy a T-Boyue AND a new smartphone XP

EllyG81 Sent from My Vivo X710L Using Tapatalk

[ApK]

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[ApK]

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

The logo on the back cannot be "upside down" when held either right or left handed because:

Amazon was wise. But do you seriously think that there aren't people here who would argue that one of those directions is wrong?

Clearly, if the 'n' is on top, you're holding it wrong!

[shamanNS]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I see we've reached the traditional JSWolf phase of the New Kindle Announcement process.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

However ... the price and the decision to continue using a breakable substrate will probably make me give it a pass for now. Perhaps I'll revisit after the first big discount event (and users have had a chance to chime in with actual usage data).

According to this source, the screen is "now based on a much thinner, slightly flexible glass substrate to make it lighter and more resilient to mild bending and drops."

http://www.slashgear.com/why-is-kind...sive-13436179/

I don't know exactly what that means in practical use -- or whether SlashGear even knows this is true for certain, but there has to be some explanation for how much lighter the Oasis is then the Paperwhite or Voyage.

The article also mentions that ... It also required a significant change in how the electronics are wired, moving the connectors from the shorter edge to the longer instead: that meant Amazon could fit more LEDs, too, making the illumination brighter and more even.

So my guess that the Voyage would -- eventually -- get 10 LEDs also is probably not going to pan out.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by June

I am intrigued by the Oasis, although the por batteri life on the device itself (2 weeks at 30mins per day, see batteries here http://youtu.be/zSVo3_cmKpI). And the lack of a stand in the cover. I read at least four hours a day...

Does anyone know if the automatic screen flipping can be switched off easily? I predict an annoyance reading in bed with the Oasis lying on your side...

Hmmm -- good point. The iPad eventually had to add a switch to turn that off.

@newkindlefun: Thanks for the battery time comparisons. So long as it's even better than the Voyage, I can't go wrong!

[MikeB1972]

Originally Posted by ApK

Amazon was wise. But do you seriously think that there aren't people here who would argue that one of those directions is wrong?

Wait until someone complains they have to read landscape so the logo is the right way up

[howyoudoin]

Originally Posted by ApK

Amazon was wise. But do you seriously think that there aren't people here who would argue that one of those directions is wrong?

Other than the charging port and power button, there is nothing else to suggest a "default" orientation to it.

But yeah, you're right. One just can't argue with people who want to nitpick.

There will always be someone obstinate enough to insist that the power button belongs to the bottom, which would make this a left handed reader by default. And vice versa there will be obstinate people who insist that the power button belongs to the top, which would make this a right handed reader by default.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by issybird

I'll say the obvious: $290 when the Paperwhite with the same resolution has just come off sale for Prime members at $90?!!!

Yep!



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[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by June

Does anyone know if the automatic screen flipping can be switched off easily? I predict an annoyance reading in bed with the Oasis lying on your side...

I'd hope that they'd think of that. Even my old Opus (2009), which also had page turn buttons on one side, had the option to turn it off.

[blackcatw81]

Originally Posted by Avwriter

Every once in a while I find myself needing to charge my Voyage while in the middle of a book that I do not wish to stop reading, and the only option is to read with the device plugged in. This is a lost opportunity to get rid of that problem.

Is there a problem about reading while charging? Or it depends on the Voyager?

EllyG81 Sent from My Vivo X710L Using Tapatalk

[NickyWithNook]

The USA Today review says that if you shift from hand to hand and flip it, the screen rotates. I doubt the buttons change position though. If you have the bottom button set to "back" and the top button set to "forward", you'd want that to switch as well when you changed hands and flipped it over.

[Pjama]

Originally Posted by sparklemotion

hee hee. I like your thinking! This will be the first kindle I pass on completely on as well. (I bought the voyage, but returned it) Enjoy your new cover and welcome aboard.

Thanks!

By the way, I also did a full factory reset of my Voyage, to give it more of that 'brand new' vibe.