Just yesterday Amazon officially presented the new Kindle Oasis e-reader with ...Kindle Oasis»/], a new high-end eReader that stands out for its improved design, with respect to its predecessor, the Kindle Voyage e-reader, ...Kindle Travel»/] And for keeping intact the features offered by the previous Kindle, which was the flagship of the company directed by Jeff Bezos. After analyzing it yesterday, after being able to test it for a few minutes at the event to which Amazon Spain invited us, today we cannot miss the opportunity to confront it with its predecessor and also compare it with the Kindle Paperwhite - 7th...Kindle Paperwhite »/], which we could say is his little brother.
Today and through this article We are going to compare in great detail the new Kindle Oasis with the Kindle Voyage, without forgetting as we have said about the Kindle Paperwhite. Perhaps the differences are not too many, but they are important and although at first glance they seem three quite similar devices in the background they are quite different, starting with their design and ending with their price.
If you want to know how the new Kindle Oasis, the Kindle Voyage and the Kindle Paperwhite are alike, keep reading carefully because through this article you will find out, not only about that, but about many other things, which we believe can be you really interesting if you are thinking, for example, of buying a new eReader, to enter the world of digital reading or to change the device you currently have.
Before comparing its screen, its price or its benefits in different aspects, we are going to do a complete review of its main characteristics and specifications, so that we can all locate ourselves and clearly know what each of these Kindle offers us.
Kindle Voyage Features and Specifications
- Screen: incorporates a 6-inch screen with letter e-papper technology, touch, with a resolution of 1440 x 1080 and 300 pixels per inch
- Dimensions: 162 x 115 x 76 mm
- Made of black magnesium
- Weight: WiFi version 180 grams and 188 grams the WiFi + 3G version
- Internal memory: 4 GB that allows you to store more than 2.000 eBooks, although it will depend on the size of each of the books
- Connectivity: WiFi and 3G connection or only WiFi
- Supported formats: Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI and PRC in their original format; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP by conversion
- Integrated light
- Higher screen contrast that will allow us to read in a more comfortable and pleasant way
- Stunning 300 dpi high resolution display - reads like paper, without glare, even in bright sunlight.
- Self-regulating front light that provides the ideal level of brightness both day and night; read comfortably for hours.
- The Page Turn feature allows you to change pages without lifting your finger.
- Read as much as you want. On a single charge, the battery lasts for weeks, not hours.
- Extensive catalog of eBooks at low prices: more than 100 eBooks in Spanish with a price less than € 000.
Kindle Oasis Features and Specifications
- Display: incorporates a 6-inch touchscreen with Paperwhite technology with E Ink Carta ™ and integrated reading light, 300 dpi, optimized font technology, and 16 gray scales
- Dimensions: 143 x 122 x 3.4-8.5 mm
- Manufactured on a plastic housing, with a polymer frame that has been subjected to a galvanization process
- Weight: WiFi version 131/128 grams and 1133/240 grams the WiFi + 3G version (The weight is shown first without the cover and second with it attached)
- Internal memory: 4 GB that allows you to store more than 2.000 eBooks, although it will depend on the size of each of the books
- Connectivity: WiFi and 3G connection or only WiFi
- Supported formats: Format 8 Kindle (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP by conversion
- Integrated light
- Our thinnest and lightest Kindle; read comfortably for hours.
- Ergonomic button design for effortless page turning.
- The Kindle with greater autonomy. The leather case with integrated battery can extend the battery life of the device by several months.
- Choose the color of the removable cover: black, burgundy or walnut.
- 300 dpi high resolution display - reads like printed paper.
Kindle Paperwhite Features and Specifications
- Display: incorporates a 6-inch screen with Letter e-paper technology and integrated reading light, 300 dpi, optimized font technology and 16 gray scales
- Dimensions: 169 x 117 x 9.1 mm
- Weight: WiFi version 205 grams and 217 grams the WiFi + 3G version
- Internal memory: 4 GB that allows you to store more than 2.000 eBooks, although it will depend on the size of each of the books
- Connectivity: WiFi and 3G connection or only WiFi
- Supported formats: Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI and PRC in their original format; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP by conversion
- Integrated light
- Battery: Amazon ensures that with a single charge of the device we can enjoy reading for 6 weeks.
- Stunning 300 dpi high resolution display - reads like paper, without glare, even in bright sunlight.
- Built-in self-regulating light: reads day and night.
- Read as much as you want. On a single charge, the battery lasts for weeks, not hours.
- Enjoy your passion for reading without email alerts or notifications.
- Extensive catalog of eBooks at low prices: more than 100 eBooks in Spanish with a price less than € 000.
Design; one step back to keep improving
With the arrival on the market last year of the Kindle Voyage, Amazon wanted to offer us a device with enormous power, interesting specifications, but above all with a Premium design and full of elegance. Made of high quality materials, just by holding it in your hand you could realize that you were not facing any device.
However With the arrival of the Kindle Oasis on the market, the company directed by Jeff Bezos seems to have decided to take a step back, in order to move in another direction., which obviously for more interesting. In this new Kindle, high-quality plastic is once again the main protagonist, to be able to offer us a device with smaller dimensions and above all with a much lower weight.
In addition, the plastic with which this new Kindle is built has not given us a bad feeling and the reduction in weight is much appreciated. As you have already seen, we have gone from 188 grams that the Kindle Voyage weighs to just 131 grams that the New Kindle Oasis weighs.
The incorporation of the case, with a built-in battery, is one of the strengths of the Kindle Oasis, in which the high-quality materials that were used in the Kindle Voyage have not been used, but which have been replaced to offer us many other things, to which more interesting, or at least we think so.
Regarding design, we could say that the Kindle Paperwhite lags one step behind both the Kindle Oasis and the Kindle Voyage, although luckily most readers do not care about the external design of the device and what is really important is the characteristics that it offers them internally.
Screen; do not look for them because there are no differences
If we were to place the three Kindle on a table and turn them on, on its screen we could find many similarities and very few differences. And it is that the screens of both the Kindle Oasis, the Kindle Voyage and the Kindle Paperwhite are the same size, use the same technology and also have the same resolution of pixels per inch.
One of the few differences that we are going to find is perhaps the luminosity and is that the Kindle Oasis has arrived on the market boasting of offering us greater luminosity, even in low light situations. This differentiating aspect largely loses its importance knowing that the three devices have integrated light that allows us to read, without any difficulty and without leaving our eyes in the attempt, in conditions of complete darkness.
Undoubtedly, the screen is not going to be one of the differences that make us lean towards buying one or the other device and that is that all three are very similar and differ in small details without too much importance.
The new Kindle Oasis case, necessary and sufficient as a novelty?
For days it had been rumored the possibility that the new Kindle will incorporate a case where an external battery is the main protagonist. This case we could say that it is one of the great differences of the new Kindle Oasis with respect to the Kindloe Voyage and in general with respect to any eReader with the Amazon seal.
Depending on the needs of each user, it can be a real blessing, although I am very afraid that few users will take advantage of it and that is that the eReader battery already offers us enormous autonomy and I believe that it is neither necessary for this new Kindle, nor enough as to be the great differentiator with respect to its predecessor.
Also, do not forget that this new Kindle offers us fast charging, which allows you to charge the device's battery in a very short space of time. Does anyone really make sense in an eReader to a case with a built-in battery?.
The price; a big difference
El Kindle Travel came to the market with a price that surprised more than one, since most of us had eReaders as devices with a more or less normal price and within the reach of any user. Amazon justified it by saying that we are facing a high-end electronic book, made of Premium materials and that it offered us features and functionalities that we could not have in another device of this type. At the moment This device can be purchased for 189.99 euros.
The company directed by Jeff Bezos continued to maintain in its catalog both the Basic Kindle and the Kindle Paperwhite, which can be purchased for 79.99 euros and 129.99 euros respectively.
The launch of the Kindle Voyage did not go badly for the large online store and despite initial stock problems, sales quickly turned up good figures. The Kindle Oasis It was supposed to go a step further and that is that its price is still higher than that of the Kindle Voyage, without, as we have seen, offer us too many novelties. Currently this device can be purchased in the market for 289.99 euros, an absolutely prohibitive price for a large number of users who are not even considering the possibility of spending is amount of money on an electronic book, which they can only use to enjoy digital reading.
The price difference between the three devices is quite important and today it is difficult to find too many users who are willing to invest almost 300 euros in an eReader. Of course, doing so we will have a Kindle with a premium design and with sensational features and specifications.
If we are inclined to spend less money, for the 129.99 euros that the Kindle Paperwhite is worth we will have a very good Kindle that will allow us to enjoy digital reading, which after all is the goal with the purchase of an eReader. We could say that the design is secondary.
The difference in price is high; Is it so much in terms of design and performance as to have to pay that difference?.
The Kidle Oasis, a winner of this duel without too many arguments
It is true that Amazon has managed to make the Kindle Oasis have a much lower weight and a much improved design, incorporating a new case that gives us an extra dose of battery, but that is where we could say that the news has arrived. If the Kindle Voyage were version 1.0 of a device, this Kindle Oasis I think it could be 1.2 without problems, when we all expected it to be a 2.0 with important news.
The new Kindle Oasis is the winner of this duel to three, although without too many arguments and with a price that has increased by nothing more and nothing less than 100 euros compared to the Kindle Voyage. We all expected much more from the new Kindle and that it would incorporate new features and not just a case with a built-in battery. This case can be very useful in a smartphone whose battery life is short, but in an eReader whose battery can last several weeks I honestly do not see the logic or the usefulness.
In a strict duel, the winner would be the Kindle Oasis, as we have said, but if we take a look at the price and especially look at what we want in an eReader, perhaps again the winner would be the Kindle Paperwhite, the most balanced Kindle in history with a simply spectacular price.
Who is the winner of the duel between the new Kindle Oasis, the Kindle Voyage and the Kindle Paperwhite for you?. You can tell us your opinion in the space reserved for comments on this post, in our forum or through any of the social networks where we are present and ready to discuss this or any other topic with you.
Well, I was disappointed, waiting for the end to be translated into a simple aesthetic change, in my opinion it is not as attractive as the voyage.
the price seems crazy to me.
no new processor, no upgraded screen, no color ink, etc.
We are still in the Middle Ages of the ereaders, does any company dare to take the step towards the Renaissance and Modernity?
Where is the famous imx7 processor hidden, where the screen with colors, even if they are turned off, where it is charged by solar energy, ...
the qualitative leap will have to come from another company, not from amazon
I would like to try the Oasis. I'm sure it's very comfortable to hold with one hand. In that regard, I congratulate Amazon for the design of the device. I have the doubt of how comfortable it will be to press the physical buttons, it sure is easy but I will always wonder why no one has imitated the little wheel that the old Papyre 5.1 had. I have never seen anything more comfortable to turn the page holding the device with one hand.
The price is what pissed me off. It is very expensive. I imagine that the fact of including the cover has something (a lot) to do with it. The question is why do they include it, thus inflating the price of the device, instead of offering it separately as a complement? I do not usually use a case because they make the device look ugly (not in this case, which is quite elegant) and they increase the weight a lot so I do not understand here why Amazon has decided to include it. Their reasons will have.
It is very good that the cover offers more autonomy but I think that the perfect advance will occur the day they incorporate their own kindle solar panel and make it independent of the electric current. With the little that ereaders consume I think it is something feasible. I suppose that if they have not done it it is due to some design or weight or cost problem. Do not know.
As you say in the article, the differences are: lighter of the device itself, more autonomy (with the cover), cover included, better design and better lighting. Is it enough to justify the price difference? that is the question.
At the moment I am still with my "old" KP2.
The issue of the Kindle Oasis with the case is that it seems that without the battery of the case, the Kindle does not exceed a couple of weeks. And this is because Amazon has relied on the fact that the vast majority of owners of one of these e-Readers always carry it with a case.
Well, only between the two of them the voyage, because I don't see any real improvement in the oasis. But if I have to choose a winner, kobo h2o clearly wins by a landslide as a reader with the best performance on the market and the best reading and configuration firmware. Although it has some dpi less. If it is a question of DPis and staying at 6 "the clear winner is the kobo hd without discussion for price quality.
I have a Kindle 7th and a Kobo Glo HD and I am sorry to say that the Glo is a bit underperformed compared to a Kindle PaperWhite which also has 300 dpi.
Exorbitant price without providing any notable innovation. It is a "more of the same" but more expensive. A total disappointment. Advances have to come hand in hand with the quality of the screens. The fact that the issue of a total white background and perfectly contrasted black letters has not been resolved clearly indicates that there is no decided commitment to innovation. As someone has said; We are still in the Middle Ages of the eredaders.
Completely agree with you. I've always said that Eink should work on that, the contrast. Whiter background (now disguised by the integrated light) and blacker letters. I think they were going to present new technologies next month ... to see what news they bring out.
The winner is neither the voyage nor the oasis. It's the paperwhite.
I don't want the cover either. That they sell it dry and we talk. However, I do not see improvements over my paperwhite.
Neither of them are "the best ereaders." If anything, they are the best Kindle, the "top of the range", but for exclusive use with Amazon. Yes, I know, I do calibrate and convert ... but ... what about the Drm? I cannot accept as a valid option "by default" something that is theoretically illegal. Skipping the Drm should not, a priori, be an option. Whenever I can, I buy without Drm, if I wanted a Kindle I would go for a paperwhite or even the most basic one without lighting, since these two toys cost a very exorbitant price for the purpose for which they are intended: reading (which is made of Wonder with the basic or with a Bq Cervantes, at much more reasonable prices).
Thank you for your article, it helped me a lot in the choice
Buying the 'old' Voyage in 2017?
As I was deciding to buy a new Kindle, I was struck by the Voyage with its minimalist look and all the rave reviews for the Oasis.
I say MINIMALIST aspect and I do not mean the Oasis, from a design and cleanliness point of view the Voyage is minimalism in e-reader.
Now, it is not only that. from the technological point of view it is superior to all, it has more technology than anybody. Dust buttons are outdated. It is the past. If it is about being operational, they are, you just have to graduate the pressure and hold your finger and press to turn the page, with a tactile response like an Apple Watch.
THEY DO THE FUNCTION and do not stand out !!!
It is the design that Jonathan Ive would do. Buttons not visible.
And the materials !!!
Silver and carbon buttons, magnesium body vs galvanized plastic.
Okay, by the weight. With covers it is less heavy. And the origami, which will be rare, but it works and gives a Japanese touch to the whole.
The ergonomics in theory best of the oasis depends on the hands you have, the Oasis may even become too small although with the reversible solution it is solved, but it forces you to always read with only one hand.
In any case it is the best value in relation to the rectangular Voyage.
To spin it fine I would say that the Voyage is for use across the board and that the Oasis could outperform it at bedtime reading.
There is a solution, buy the SUV Voyage, and the Oasis to read in bed (just kidding).
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Is it the best Kindle?
The best Kindle will be a Voyage - with its invisible buttons - and the size and proportions of the Oasis.
Cornering circuits doesn't put you above Voyage, it's a futuristic aesthetic and a trip to the past.
And one more thing ... the automatic light is a delight that should be present in any device of the future.
The 10 LEDs vs the 6 of the Voyage make no difference, zero complaints about the light and also a bright white paper.
PRICE, a Voyage with Origami is -only- € 50 - cheaper. So this is not an issue.
An Oasis with Voyage technology is the little else that could be improved.
Said all this from the respect 😉
Thank you for your article, it helped me a lot in the choice.
As I was deciding to buy a new Kindle, I was struck by the Voyage with its minimalist look and all the rave reviews for the Oasis.
I say MINIMALIST aspect and I do not mean the Oasis, from a design and cleanliness point of view the Voyage is minimalism in e-reader.
Now, it is not only that. from the technological point of view it is superior to all, it has more technology than anybody. Dust buttons are outdated. It is the past. If it is about being operational, they are, you just have to graduate the pressure and hold your finger and press to turn the page, with a tactile response like an Apple Watch.
THEY DO THE FUNCTION and do not stand out !!!
It is the design that Jonathan Ive would do. Buttons not visible.
And the materials !!!
Silver and carbon buttons, magnesium body vs galvanized plastic.
Okay, by the weight. With covers it is less heavy. And the origami, which will be rare, but it works and gives a Japanese touch to the whole.
The ergonomics in theory best of the oasis depends on the hands you have, the Oasis may even become too small although with the reversible solution it is solved, but it forces you to always read with only one hand.
In any case it is the best value in relation to the rectangular Voyage.
To spin it fine I would say that the Voyage is for use across the board and that the Oasis could outperform it at bedtime reading.
There is a solution, buy the SUV Voyage, and the Oasis to read in bed (just kidding).
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Is it the best Kindle?
The best Kindle will be a Voyage - with its invisible buttons - and the size and proportions of the Oasis.
Cornering circuits doesn't put you above Voyage, it's a futuristic aesthetic and a trip to the past.
And one more thing ... the automatic light is a delight that should be present in any device of the future.
The 10 LEDs vs the 6 of the Voyage make no difference, zero complaints about the light and also a bright white paper.
PRICE, a Voyage with Origami is -only- € 50 - cheaper. So this is not an issue.
An Oasis with Voyage technology is the little else that could be improved.
Said all this from the respect 😉
Ergonomics.
It depends on the hands you have, the Oasis may even become too small although with the reversible solution it is solved, but it forces you to always read with one hand.
To spin it fine I would say that the Voyage is for use across the board and that the Oasis could outperform it at bedtime reading.
There is a solution, buy the Voyage SUV, and the Oasis to read in bed.
I have to buy one for a birthday from a great worst paper reader, what would you recommend? I have to look very good