10-12-2017, 09:47 AM | #16 | |
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10-12-2017, 10:28 AM | #17 | |
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The devices will not update in the box (in "shipping mode") and the logistics of unboxing them, updating them, and reboxing them is hard to imagine. These things are produced in hundreds of thousand unit batches. Have you tried 5.8.11 in your current Kindle yet? |
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10-12-2017, 02:36 PM | #18 |
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Re the "Audible will come to existing Oasis's too" ( "it will be available via a free over-the-air update to ... the first Kindle Oasis in the coming months") Does the first Oasis have bluetooth? I don't see it in my settings. And there's no earplug jack. So how would the first Oasis use Audible?
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10-12-2017, 03:13 PM | #19 | |
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10-12-2017, 06:27 PM | #20 | |
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Bluetooth is include on the SoC but other than the 8th. gen Kindle Basic, not used. And the antenna could be just about any printed trace. Since the Oasis has never been closely examined, it might have a BT antenna and no one has noticed it. But if the antenna is there, then it is just a matter of enabling Bluetooth in the Kernel. We don't have a lot of non-publish technical detail on the Oasis. Because of the cost and the lack of any known serial port, few people have experimented with the internals. Oh, And where you posting about the 5.8.11 version? (we have the links posted in the dev sub-forum). |
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10-13-2017, 04:17 AM | #21 | ||
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10-13-2017, 04:42 AM | #22 |
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This thread is way off-topic. Time to move the off-topic talk to one of the other threads about the KO2.
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10-13-2017, 05:25 AM | #23 | |
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Ideally, with the Oasis form factor, they would have gone for a longer but less wide display to retain device proportions and come closer to the actual “aspect ratio” of an actual book (like for example Sony did with the PRS 900 and 950). |
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10-13-2017, 05:51 AM | #24 |
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I didn't like the size of the 900/950. It should have been wider as well as taller. I never have liked these TPB that are taller and more narrow. They just feel odd to hold. and a Reader based on those is not going to be one I'll own.
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10-13-2017, 01:20 PM | #25 |
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10-15-2017, 02:08 PM | #26 |
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Amazon are currently tying in Audible with Sonos. The operational system of that may be tied into what the Oasis can do too.
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10-15-2017, 06:29 PM | #27 | |
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"Display: 7" diagonal display, 1680 x 1264 pixels, 300 dpi resolution, 16-level gray scale." I wanted to download the Kindle Oasis User's Guide to my Paperwhite but I couldn't find it. |
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