With 4GB storage, the Oasis can store thousands of ebooks – just like any other Kindle. The process of reading is perfectly effortless too.
It offers you the Netflix-like choice of 1 million books to peruse for £7.99 per month. Those will take me at least a month to trawl through, but for anyone who’s reading pace is more akin to the spitfire flow of 2 Chainz then Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited service should suffice. Within a couple of minutes of turning on the Oasis I’d already invested in Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements and Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk biography. You just type their title into the Kindle’s search bar and it’ll take you straight to the relevant page on Amazon’s store. And if you’ve ever owned one of these e-readers before you’ll be familiar with that too.Īs per last year’s Voyage, ordering books is frighteningly simple. The horror!Īside from its software, that’s pretty much all you need to know about the Kindle Oasis. I actually prefer the tactility that you get with the Oasis, even if it means lifting your finger to flip onto another page. Amazon claims the reason an adaptive display is missing from the Oasis is to preserve the thinness of its latest Kindle.Įlsewhere, the Oasis offers physical ‘page turn buttons’ instead of the Voyage’s pressure sensitive alternatives, but that’s not such a big deal. Anyone who’s handled a Samsung Galaxy S7 or LG G5 will attest this trick is especially useful for both preserving battery life and ensuring your eyes don’t get tired after extended periods of usage. This allows for more LEDs to be used for stronger lighting and reduces the distance the light has to travel from edge to edge.Īs much as text really does pop off the Oasis’ screen, proving infinitely more preferable to read than on a smartphone, an adaptive display wouldn’t have gone amiss either. This is because it features a different LED alignment where the diodes have been shifted from the top and bottom of the display to its sides. In Amazon’s defence, it’ll argue that the Oasis’ backlight is still superior to the Voyage’s. I mean you’d expect a device this extravagant to come with all the trimmings, right?
In terms of faux pas, this isn’t quite as bad as confusing Biggie and 2Pac at a Compton block party, but it does call this Kindle’s value into question. In terms of backlighting, the Kindle Voyage is adaptive to the conditions around you, whereas the Oasis forces you to turn brightness up and down in its settings. Sure, it’s got both the same 300 pixels per inch resolution that ensures text is pin-sharp and effortless to skim through, and the latest E Ink Carta tech to avoid onscreen glare and reflections. I’ve got a bone to pick, the Oasis’ 6-inch touchscreen display isn’t quite as fully featured as the one as you’ll find in Amazon’s cheaper Kindle Voyage.
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