Kindle oasis vs paperwhite 2019 upgrade#
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⤅ Kindle Oasis 2019: What are the internal features? Also, a little irritatingly, it charges using a micro-USB port so I can’t use my phone’s USB-C charger on it.

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Listening to audiobooks has to be done via Bluetooth headphones. You may have noticed, however, that there’s no headphone jack. Essentially: it’s ridiculously light, very slim, won’t fit into a pocket but will fit almost everywhere else. The measurements are shown above, but for a real-life comparison, it’s about the length and weight of my Samsung S10. That’s also because you don’t want a £200-device smashing on the floor. The metal can show fingerprints pretty easily, though, so I’d recommend adding a case. It’s made of a smooth cool brushed aluminium, and comes in the colours ‘graphite’ (AKA black) and ‘champagne gold’ (AKA pink). In my opinion, the whole thing is very pretty. The humped side also has two buttons to turn the pages. An internal gyroscope will flip the page around to accommodate for left-handed or right-handed readers, so you aren’t trapped gripping the device with a hand you don’t favour. One side is raised in a hump to make one-handed reading easier. ⤅ What are the external features of the Kindle Oasis 2019?Īs you can see from the image above, the Oasis’s most distinctive feature is its asymmetry. I don’t expect it to happen again, and the changes weren’t ground-breaking anyway. Unlike with phones/laptops, e-readers don’t often have new models released I think everyone was surprised when Amazon released a new Oasis after only two years. If you get this, you can expect to be using it for a good few years. My old Kindle Keyboard still works perfectly after over a decade, and I have no reason to believe that either of my Kindle Oases wouldn’t have done the same. Unlike with other electronics, your Kindle won’t become obsolete in a hurry. you don’t already have an e-reader, or you have another type of Kindle) I do think that price-wise, it’s a good investment for bookworms. If you aren’t upgrading to this model from the Kindle Oasis 2017 (i.e. (Not often UK buyers are luckier than Americans when it comes to electronics…) ⤅ Is it a good investment? UK buyers are lucky here, since we don’t get those. Those are basically ads that show up on the lock screen every time you close your Kindle. For all but the last model, Americans will also have to pay an extra $20 not to have to see ‘Special Offers’.

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The absolute max model – 32 GB plus free 4G connection so you don’t have to wait for WiFi to download books – will set you back by £320 or $350. This increases to £260 and $280 respectively for 32 GB storage. The starting model, which has 8 GB storage, clocks in at £229.99 for the UK and $249.99 for the U.S. It is, to put it bluntly, bloody expensive. I’ll go into the reasons why later in this review. But since there was a discount, I do think it was worth upgrading. I would definitely not have upgraded otherwise.

Kindle oasis vs paperwhite 2019 upgrade#

I did the upgrade on Black Friday, when the price had been slashed by about £60.

Kindle oasis vs paperwhite 2019 full#

The short answer: not if you’re paying full price. So, I know what you’re thinking: WHY DID YOU UPGRADE IF THEY’RE BASICALLY THE SAME? Is it worth upgrading from the Kindle Oasis 2017? The picture below is of my last Kindle, but it looks exactly the same. On the outside, the two e-readers are identical. There are also 25 embedded LEDs lighting up the screen rather than 12. Then I sold it on eBay and upgraded to the tenth generation Oasis (2019), which now has the option to have a warm sepia tone to the screen, rather than plain white. So for my eighteenth birthday, I got a ninth generation Kindle Oasis 2017. I was happy with it, but its existence was abruptly terminated when I dropped it into the bath in 2017. There was no built-in light in the touchscreen (Amazon does now offer this feature even in its entry-level models). It was literally just a flat plastic tablet with no buttons and a touchscreen.

Next in my lineup was the super-basic Kindle 8 I bought in 2016. It actually still works, which just goes to show that these things are built to last. It wouldn’t have won any prizes for beauty, but it got the job done. I’ve been using various Kindle devices for about a decade, dating back to when my dad first bought the Kindle Keyboard in 2010. After all, there tons of cheaper e-readers out there, like the Paperwhite, also sold by Amazon. But what my review will be examining today is whether or not it’s actually worth it. In fact, it’s one of the most expensive e-readers around.