Things are fast with the Kindle Oasis and it is quite responsive to touch as well due to the tactile buttons. In terms of the book formats support, you have these: Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion. But on cellular data, you can only use it to buy and download books from Amazon. The Kindle Oasis supports Wi-Fi b/g/n and 3G cellular data. This feature is currently not available in India as there is no Audible service available here, so I wasn't able to test it out. A Bluetooth chip inside the Kindle Oasis can pair with your Bluetooth headphones, which will let you listen to your downloaded audiobooks. Anyone who has read a Kindle book would know that these two storage capacities are overkill just for ebooks. However, there is support for Audible audiobooks and that is one of the reasons why Kindle Oasis comes in an 8 GB and a 32 GB variants. The Kindle Oasis comes with 8 GB of internal storage and there is no audio jack like we had seen years ago with the Kindle Keyboard. On the top navigational panel, you have a link to the GoodReads account as well as the shopping cart. The Settings menu is quite detailed letting you change wireless settings, adjust language and dictionaries, add parental controls, vocabulary builder flash cards are also present on the Oasis and much more. You also get a 3x3 matrix to preview your pages, for those times when you want to just go back a few pages to check something. Amazon has used a faster processor to take care of this. This was a feature that hasn’t been present on earlier Kindles as it requires a lot of background processing when it comes to rearranging the flow of the text. When inside a book, you now get some additional features in terms of more fonts, the ability to have a bolder font and page alignment can be left aligned as we see in regular books. This is not very convenient, but you will have to get used to it. When holding the Oasis in the palm of your hand, you will notice the sharp edges burying into your palms. And this leads to another issue – sharp edges. I ended up gripping the Oasis around its edges, with the fingers stretched which isn’t really ideal. It just does not lend itself well to this use-case. The fingers on the rear side now do not provide any help and you will have to grip the Oasis with your thumb and try to balance it on the palm of your hand, which makes it inconvenient when it comes to page turning. But when you are trying to read the Oasis while lying on the bed, with the Oasis held above your face while reading, you quickly realise that it is an ergonomic nightmare. Your thumb is free for page turns using the physical buttons or via the touchscreen. Now when you are sitting and reading a book, there is no issue as the weight of the Oasis is supported by the fingers resting on the slope on the rear side. All the buttons have a good amount of tactility. It has the familiar physical page-turn buttons on the large bezel on the right-hand side, a power/standby button on the top and a microUSB charging and data transfer port below. The new Kindle Oasis comes with a 7-inch Paperwhite display with 'E Ink Carta HD' technology. Amazon has continued with the asymmetrical design language that we had seen with the 2016 Oasis and refined it with a bigger display. This is the biggest change with the new Kindle Oasis. So let me make my case as to why I think so. It also makes the positioning stronger for the Kindle Voyage and the Kindle Paperwhite, in case you are not looking to spend upwards of Rs 20,000 on an e-reader. Having used the Kindle Oasis for a month, it is easy to say that it is the best version of the Kindle out there. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite price slashed, now starts at Rs 9,999 Amazon launches new slimmer Kindle Oasis for Rs 23,999 to start shipping in coming weeks
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