10-16-2018, 11:09 AM | #46 |
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10-16-2018, 11:14 AM | #47 |
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10-16-2018, 11:19 AM | #48 | |
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So the ability to replace batteries is important to me. Waterproofing? I don't read in the water. But I do realize that everyone is different. One person's necessary feature is another person's "meh." |
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10-16-2018, 11:22 AM | #49 |
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10-16-2018, 11:25 AM | #50 |
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Even with the warm color setting it could still go white, right? When the Paperwhite first came out there was no warm color setting feature ... anywhere. Maybe there's some kind of patent on the method other companies are using for the warm light?
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10-16-2018, 11:48 AM | #51 |
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I've got a PW3 (since 2015) and have long been eyeing the Oasis 2 for the water resistance and 32GB storage. However, I just couldn't bring myself to bite the bullet at ~$300 with tax (plus no manual orientation/rotation is a possible con for my usage). This PW4 looks far more palatable particularly with the 25% trade-in promo discount.
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10-16-2018, 11:58 AM | #52 |
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I'm underwhelmed, but I ordered one anyway.
I want a small waterproof ereader, I have forty-five dollars in trade-in credit, and I like buying ereaders. It seems I will have to resign myself to the fact that nobody wants to make high-end ereaders in small form. In a more perfect world it would be smaller and lighter, it would have buttons, and it most definitely would have the comfort light. |
10-16-2018, 12:07 PM | #53 |
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10-16-2018, 12:08 PM | #54 |
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Any word on the CPU/RAM yet?
32Gb storage won't be too useful if the firmware can't manage big accumulations. |
10-16-2018, 12:10 PM | #55 |
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I only say this because someone — in another thread — mentioned that the newest software for a Kindle in China (maybe not the main Chinese Kindle branch), 6.x.x was Android. I certainly hope it's not Android.
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10-16-2018, 12:17 PM | #56 | |
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(Confusing Kindle with FIRE OS gadgetry.) With all the talk of KINDLE glacial upgrade pace, they have no incentive to ditch a stable, small footprint codebase for...? On minimalist gadgetry getting as close to the metal is best and it's hard to get more minimalist than Kindles. As of last year, they were still Linux: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/kindle-root Last edited by fjtorres; 10-16-2018 at 12:19 PM. |
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10-16-2018, 12:22 PM | #57 |
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10-16-2018, 12:22 PM | #58 |
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Just a quick offtopic aside - if you bought it used did it come with an original sony charger? And is it simply not charging? I had a Sony reader that I thought was dead until I got an original Sony charger for it - in this case it was a Playstation Portable charger. That resolved the problem.
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10-16-2018, 12:26 PM | #59 |
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That depends on content type. My manga (Japanese comics) averages around 80MB per volume so 32GB would barely fit ~400 of those. A piece of cake even for the PW3.
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10-16-2018, 12:30 PM | #60 | |
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