It’s good for immersion for up toĪn hour in two metres of fresh water. Unit is fairly waterproof, with IPX8 rating. The body of the Kindle Oasis is made from aluminium. The number of pixels in each direction isn’t specified, but IĬalculate it at around 1,253 across by 1,667 vertically. Inch (compared to 167ppi for the basic Kindle), which perhaps notĬoincidentally was the resolution of the first generation of monochrome laser The Kindle Oasis body and dietĪmazon specifies the screen resolution at 300 pixels per There’s enough to hold onto all the way around.

The edge holding the buttons is 26mm wide. At the left, top and bottom, the bezel is around 9mm wide. The two page-turn buttons are to the right on the thicker part, with the power button on the top edge and the Micro-B socket on the bottom edge. It’sĪlways in portrait mode, but a sensor tells it which way around it is, so it’llįlip the screen by 180 degrees to match its orientation. Measurement – 106.1mm wide and 141.2mm tall), with a 3:4 aspect ratio. The display has a roughly 7-inch diagonal (6.95 inches by my Of the light to something warmer if you wish, but only if the backlight is in As seems to be the fad these days, you can change the colour The display is monochrome – 16-level grey scale on a neutral Get many more hours than the 21 hours implied by the above claim. Reading outdoors or under strong room lights, so the backlight isn’t needed, you’ll It was still in the mid-70s in percentage terms. The backlight is off, but the display is on.Īfter a few weeks I thought I’d better check the battery It shows one of a small selection of patterns, such as the type face from a You see, when the Kindle Oasis is off, its display is still It just sat there on the coffee table, face up.

When it arrived, I unpacked the Kindle Oasis, charged it up, installed a couple of books and then got distracted by other things for weeks. (6) weeks, based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless and Bluetooth Instead it has a built-in Lithium Ion battery, charged via a Oh no, there’s no way they’dįit into a device that is only 8.3mm thick at its thickest, and 3.4mm thick for

And, ofĬourse, it uses power for its electronic innards. It needs power for the backlight, when that is in use. Oasis requires no power to maintain an image on its display. Sixteen years later, the technology has gotten enormouslyīetter, but the concept remains the same.

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