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In April 2016, Amazon unveiled its kickoff-generation Kindle Haven, a 6-inch device with a 300 PPI screen, the aforementioned E Ink display that makes reading a Kindle more like reading a conventional book, and an asymmetrical design meant to arrive easier to concord for one-handed reading. The original Haven had a secondary battery integrated into the instance. The platform'due south storage offered 3GB of user-accessible space, though the showtime-gen Haven did have ten LEDs for backlighting, every bit opposed to 4-6 on the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Voyage.

The company's newly appear Kindle Oasis, helpfully named the "All-New Kindle Oasis" considering patently the Amazon dev team stole the marketing division'due south funding, increases the screen size from six inches to seven, adds an IPX8 waterproof rating (the starting time Kindle to do then), packs on some LEDs (up to 12, from 10), a baseline 8GB of storage (7GB of this should exist user-attainable based on the 3GB adequacy on previous 4GB Kindles), an aluminum back, and a baseline price of $250. That'southward $twoscore less than the original Kindle Oasis' introductory cost, and you're getting substantially more machine for the aforementioned cost.

The $250 toll bespeak assumes yous buy the device "With Special Offers," a smashing little fleck of marketing that Amazon can sell equally cut your price and offering you a benefit. Subsequently all, who wouldn't want special offers‽ The storage improvements will as well get in much easier to carry multiple audiobooks at the same fourth dimension, if that'south your fancy.

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According to Amazon, the sometime magnetic-attached cases are no longer necessary, since the system now includes a larger battery. Exactly how large this battery is unclear, since the new Oasis has the aforementioned thickness as its predecessor.

The IPX8 waterproofing has pulled more attending, since this has been a feature readers have wanted for a number of years. Equally a person who started reading in the bathtub before he hit puberty, and who stuck to baths as opposed to showers because it led him read more, I am obviously a giant nerd sympathetic to people who don't want to drib cherished electronics into the bathtub or shower. The thought of an accidental toilet drop does not bear thinking on.

While we even so have questions about the new hardware's battery life, this actually looks like a significant update for the platform. The larger screen, additional LEDs, waterproofing, and significantly reduced price make this an easy buy, if you're looking for a meridian-end Kindle, anyway. It'southward never been clear how Amazon'south Kindle business concern has fared in recent years, as e-volume prices accept fluctuated, but the platform is clearly doing well enough for the company to feel comfy pushing out new hardware.