On the thicker side of the Oasis, you'll find a wider black bezel with two page-turning buttons. The front of the device is flat, smooth glass. The aluminum body is well made and durable. It has a slim design that's just 0.13 of an inch wide at its narrowest point and 0.33 of an inch wide at its widest point. The design of the Oasis is what sets it apart from every other Kindle Amazon makes.
The Oasis has a modern, slim design that's great for reading one-handed. Water resistance: IPX8 rating for submersion in up to 2 meters (6.5 feet) of fresh water for up to 60 minutes.Warranty: 1-year limited warranty and service or you can get a 1-year, 2-year, or 3-year Extended Warranty in the US.Connectivity: Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth, LTE (optional).Formats Supported: Native support for Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC, and Audible audio format (AAX) and support after conversion for HTML DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and PMP.
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Battery Life: Up to six weeks if you read half an hour each day with the light set at level 13 and wireless and Bluetooth off.Storage: 8GB stores thousands of books or 35 Audible audiobooks 32GB stores thousands of books or 160 Audible audiobooks.Screen: 7-inch E INK screen, 25 LED front lights, 300 ppi, adjustable color temperature, 16-level gray scale.
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Here's my full review of the Kindle Oasis and everything you need to know about what it's like to read on a $250 ereader. Now that I've been using it for almost a full year, I can confidently say that it's better than the original and the second-generation Oasis, largely thanks to its new screen that lets you adjust the color temperature. I read on my original 2016 Kindle Oasis nearly every day for three years - only pausing to review other ereaders in between - until Amazon sent me the 2019 version to review. It sounds ridiculous, but it came down to one thing: the page-turning buttons.įinally, I could read one-handed while holding onto a pole in the subway as I trundled along underground to work on my long commute! At that point, I had already been testing ereaders for about two years and I was still lukewarm on the idea of reading ebooks on one. What it's like to read on the Kindle Oasisīack in 2016 when the original Kindle Oasis launched, I fell in love with reading ebooks on an ereader.