Kindle Oasis, review Macitynet – Macity (Blog)

We’ve tried for two months, the latest addition to the Amazon Kindle Oasis, a luxury product for reading, using it to dozens of books and trying to understand how is evolving the line of the most famous products of the company in Seattle. Here are the results.

It is the most expensive among the Kindle on the market and the more style. Super thin, asymmetric, with a high-quality active illumination, and a series of cover that also contains the second battery. It can say that, if it were not for the price, it would be definitely the best Kindle ever.

Macitynet have tried it a long time, testing your skills as a reader, the battery life, the use in various contexts, and the superiority of this product has emerged from all points of view. Thin, light, with a different shape from that of the traditional players, also recovering the two physical buttons to change pages (or you can use the touch screen). The eink technology is always relatively slow, but this new device improves even more speed. The Kindle will never replace a tablet with traditional screen, but they become more and more able to interact without major delays. But we see in detail how to use this Kindle.

What does

the packaging is a little box, compact, cardboard. Nothing striking, but still simple and light, as well as the most valuable of the old container for Kindle, ie a-like package shipping from Amazon. Inside the box, in addition to the Kindle and its cover with the battery, the cable to recharge it with the usual USB-micro-USB socket and, as tradition Amazon also respected this time, no charger. Never mind, because the writer has always used the iPhone, saving space and complications.

The device Oasis is available in three colors: the body of the Kindle is always black and change the color of the cover: burgundy, walnut or black. It is a leather or suede for the nut, as in the sample under test. We need to say that we would have preferred a different material, suede, as in the other two models. But, as they say, this passed the convent …

On the first approach, Kindle Oasis looks very light. Without the cover it is almost embarrassing to hold it so much lighter. The sbombatura on one side is used to keep the battery and the two buttons to go back and forth. If you hold the sbombatura on the right, to change hands just turn it 180 degrees and all the text rotates in practice like a cup for coffee with the handle, the model is universal and it’s fine for right and left-handed.

at the top (or bottom, depending on how you hold it shot) is the power button / switch and micro USB socket to recharge it or connect it to your computer. On the back, along the edge of the battery (which suggests a groove is available to technical), there are five retractable metal contacts not dissimilar to those of the iPad Pro. Here is hooked thanks to a high-strength magnet the cover-battery current passes. The cover is also equipped with another magnet on the side that closes the screen, so as to operate as a “smart cover” and to enter or leave the Kindle the pause state.

feature of this equipment compared to other Kindle is the double type of pause: normal (just closes the cover) and “deep” (after a certain period of time not configurable by the user) that requires ten seconds to reactivate the Kindle. It is this second approach that also allows the unit to operate with reduced battery without the cover and reach the autonomy of maximum tension for a Kindle.

How It Works

Kindle Oasis came out at a time that Amazon has revised the operating system of all its equipment. All Kindle in recent months have been subjected to this update to be able to still access the Amazon Store and view purchased books on this store. The innovations were necessary in order to align the functions related to the integration of the books and the new management of the proposals for “recommended books for you.”

WE are small variations in the type of interface between Kindle and Kindle because the methods of operation and the ability of the processors changing and are different between the various models. Let’s focus on that for Oasis. You can answer a series of questions of profiling on the basis of their reading tastes (such as genres, such as authors, what types etc) and lower operating system presents a strip of “Recommended books for you” that is also updated on the basis the purchases that are made gradually. It is a mode far from intrusive and presents pretty interesting things. The writer has not activated Kindle Unlimited, then does not actually accessso to a significant part of the pattern of consumption of books from Amazon. However, you can ensure that even without Unlimited proposals are very interesting and well-balanced, if you do a proper sorting during questionnaire completion.

The interface then presents a more rational approach to both the portion of the “my library” than to that of “reading lists”: now, thanks to the higher screen resolution (300 ppi and excellent illumination of 24 progressive step), the interface orientation is more fluid and also focused on covers of books, making the vicar effect of using virtual books instead of more realistic physical.

Surely in this key Amazon’s strategy is to increase consumption and now the chosen road is to recommend things more from organically read along the lines of what you are reading and on your taste.

the home of Kindle Oasis is also equipped with the usual tools: a cross-search the contents of all the books , the share of e-commerce (both with WiFi link that with the 3G, but if it is free in the navigation has however a premium in case of purchase and then download a book), the chance to go back, to go to home and manage settings. In the latter you get for two streets. On one side with a hard right menu, three dots vertically, making access to all the different parts of the Kindle (my library, my reading lists, Kindle Store, Kindle FreeTime, Enrich your vocabulary, experimental browser, settings Create a new collection).

Instead, the third from the left menu (indicated with a toothed wheel gear) is to enter the graphics mode settings. Here it changes depending on whether there is a cover attached or not: large icons allow you to quickly switch to airplane mode, sync with Kindle in the cloud (see below) and access to all settings. Also you can adjust the brightness and, if the cover is attached, also displays an additional strip with the level of internal and external battery ( “Kindle” and “Cover”, as he calls the system), which work in an interesting way.

In practice, the external battery charging the inner one, which is gradually consumed by the Kindle. If you connect to a charger the Kindle Oasis, it is charged before the inside and then the outside. The outer cover can not be loaded independently because it has no USB connection or are accessories to charge it through the contacts. Note the intelligence of the design: the electrical contacts of the Kindle are flush so do not catch as it is placed in a bag or pocket without the cover. But those of the cover are made needle but it is not a problem because they are protected when the cover is closed without a Kindle.