However, it stands to reason that the Oasis must have a bigger battery, since it has a bigger display to power. There’s no stated battery capacity, as Amazon prefers to describe battery life for both Kindles as up to six weeks from a single charge based on half an hour of reading a day. Side-by-side, the Kindle Oasis is a touch faster to turn pages and respond to touches a little faster, so it seems likely that it has a little extra processing power under the hood. Winner: Kindle Oasis Performance, battery life, and charging Brenda Stolyar/Digital TrendsĪmazon doesn’t specify processors and RAM in its e-book readers, but the Kindle Oasis and the Kindle Paperwhite were both responsive and slick to navigate. Both devices support automatic brightness, but we found that it worked a lot better with the Oasis, whereas we often had to manually adjust the Paperwhite. While both devices use LEDs to light up the screen, the Oasis also boasts more LEDs than the Paperwhite, so it offers more lighting levels and better uniformity around the screen. But, most importantly in our book, only the Oasis allows you to filter out blue light at night if you want to, making nighttime reading a more pleasurable experience.

For a start, the Oasis has a bigger 7-inch screen, while the Paperwhite has a 6-inch display. While the Oasis and Paperwhite both have sharp screens rated at 300 pixels per inch, there are some important differences. The Oasis comes in a choice of graphite or champagne gold, but the Paperwhite turns the tables with a selection of black, sage, plum, or twilight blue.īoth e-book readers have an IPX8 rating, which means splashes and rain are nothing to worry about in fact, they’re protected against immersion in up to 6.5 feet of fresh water for up to an hour.īut the new Oasis has really shown its quality where the display is concerned. While the Oasis boasts a svelte aluminum body, with a thicker section at one side that houses physical turn page buttons, the Paperwhite is matte plastic, with chunkier bezels around the smaller screen and no physical turn page buttons.

There’s a big difference between the Oasis and Paperwhite in the looks department.

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