Yesterday I went to the sea. I’m not a great lover of the beach, the scorching sun and the crowd, so I love entertain with various technological devices. Until now I had brought with me the trusty Kindle Paperwhite to read, but lately, driven by beautiful design, I switched to a blazing Kindle Oasis burgundy color.
Beautiful and expensive : Amazon is the top range of home and well costs 289 Euros, is almost the most expensive ebook reader on the market, even compared to the top range of competition as Kobo, who recently presented the Aura One, but there are actually dozens of alternative solutions. I have decided to focus again on an Amazon device for ease of use, the endless catalog (especially in English) and in general for impeccable service.
But what has more Kindle Oasis to justify the 100 euro more than a Kindle Voyage which is also very good? First Oasis already has his leather magnetic enclosure , which conceals an additional battery that really makes the difference, while Voyage you have to spend another 45 Euros for highly convenient housing Origami, which has since its the fact can keep the device “standing” due to the case.
but Oasis boasts a unique design, usable even by left-handers thanks to the internal gyroscope, in addition to having two physical buttons, touch than usual, for turn the pages. The handle is ergonomic and tapered and moves the center of gravity on the palm, so that the device rests on the hand as would the spine of a book. It’s lighter, it is smaller, it almost seems that “disappear” in the hands of the reader: it weighs only 131 grams without housing and is often 3.4 mm in its thinnest part. Ok, everything beautiful, but I books, as I think in many, I also read them on the beach . And I’m afraid to bring this jewel in the marina jungle.
This is because Kindle Oasis is not waterproof , and this is a very serious lack for such an expensive item. Not resistant to the contact of water and dust (let alone the sand), and not because the technology has not yet been applied to the e-book reader: the Kobo Aura One can be submerged up to two meters for 60 minutes, and also has a more screen great. But there’s more: Kindle Oasis has no sensor for the adaptive brightness (well you can just manually choose what the screen should be lit): of course, provides more LEDs than Voyage and the lighting is really good, but really no one understood why Amazon has given up this feature already present on a lower-end device.
the top of the range device for reading is the book . Yes, the one that has existed for hundreds of years: is mobile, you do not unload, resists dust, sand, and certainly not destroyed immediately if it comes into contact with a little ‘of water. And Amazon wants to achieve this with the Kindle line, of course, adding the ability to be able to carry hundreds of books without filling a suitcase. The ultimate goal would be to make the Kindle more portable and accessible to anyone. Amazon Kindle has a lot closer with Oasis, but has not reached perfection due to some shortcomings that given the price could be inserted (and we have not even talked about the absence of the headphone jack and support for audio books). The end user of Oasis then basically pay new design , more than technology, which basically is not advanced one millimeter with this device.
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