![]() Once you have tasted these warm whites, it’s remarkably hard to go back to the regular Kindle models. Since we prefer keeping our Kindle screen on low to medium brightness, what we lived with was a more nuanced and natural paper yellow.įor a device whose very existence depends on reducing eye-strain, this is a change that significantly matters. The yellow tint is more conspicuous at high-brightness or when using the Kindle Oasis in the dark. ![]() The warm lighting works in conjunction with the System Brightness. The LEDs that light up the screen are on the edges and not behind the display, and even on minimum brightness, the screen is perfectly readable provided the ambient lighting is proper. This is because they employ less responsive but glare-free e-ink displays. The USP of ebook readers is that they are significantly lighter on eyes compared to regular phones, laptops or tablets. The warm lighting doesn’t exactly work like the Blue light filter on our phones. How big a difference this makes should depend on how sensitive you are too harsh Bluelight and on how you use your ebook reader. Kindle Oasis now has additional yellow LEDs (shooting the total up from 12 to 25) that can help adjust the color temperature to warmer tones. IPX8 (can last in 2m deep freshwater for 60 minutes)ĭisplay: How well does the warm light work? Wi-Fi, limited 4G, Bluetooth, micro USB port Kindle Oasis (10th Gen) Price and Specifications ModelĨGB, 32GB Free cloud storage for Amazon content So, how big a deal is the warm lighting on the Kindle Oasis 2019? We have been testing the new Kindle for many weeks now and will answer all relevant questions in our review that follows. In fact, the very existence of the new model is justified by one major change – the warm lighting. Both cost $20 more for the non-ad versions.It’s been several months since Amazon introduced its Kindle Oasis (10th generation), and going by the usual Kindle launch cycles, this should remain the flagship Kindle to buy through 2020.Ĭompared to the last Oasis, which ushered in many significant changes, not much has changed this cycle with the third Oasis iteration. Price: The Kindle Oasis 3 starts at $249 for the 8GB model with Special Offers and the Kindle Paperwhite 4 starts at $129 for the 8GB model with Special Offers. ![]() Amazon gives the same battery life estimate for both, but most users would probably say the Paperwhite has better battery life. The Oasis has Large Mode to increase interface text size and some images.īattery life is tricky. The Oasis is a bit faster at certain things, like turning pages and loading books from the homescreen. The Paperwhite has the advantage of portability with the narrower design being more pocket-friendly. The Oasis has page-turn buttons and an auto-rotation sensor to switch between left and right-handed reading. The Oasis has an unusual design that’s thicker on one end than the other, and it has a more premium feel with an aluminum back, whereas the Paperwhite is plastic with a soft rubbery coating on the back. The Paperwhite’s screen background color appears lighter in tone, whereas the screen background on the Oasis has a yellower tint to it. The frontlight also has a sensor to adjust the light automatically, along with nightlight mode to gradually decrease screen brightness at night. The screen on the Oasis is brighter and more evenly-lit and the text stands out more. The Oasis adds a warm frontlight, with 25 LEDs compared to the Paperwhite’s 5 LEDs. ![]() The Kindle Oasis has a 7-inch E Ink screen and the Kindle Paperwhite has a 6-inch screen, both with 300 ppi.īoth have flush front screens, but the Oasis has a glass screen and the Paperwhite has a plastic layer. ![]() Kindle Oasis vs Kindle Paperwhite: Main Differences I’ll get the Kindle Oasis 3 review posted later in the week. Here’s the link to the Kindle Paperwhite 4 review for more info about it. All the core reading features are the same. The main differences between the two models are the design, the size, and the warm frontlight. There are a lot of similarities between the two Kindle models.īoth are waterproof and both are available with 8GB or 32GB of storage space, and both have the option for 4G LTE wireless.īoth have Bluetooth to listen to Audible audiobooks and both offer inverted mode to read with white text on a black background.īoth weigh about the same the Oasis is just a few grams heavier. But the Paperwhite has some advantages of its own, like the fact that it costs nearly half the price as the Oasis while running nearly identical software with all the same reading features. ![]()
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