Amazon's New Kindle Oasis Is Absurdly Thin
It's the lightest e-reader around.
Last week, I met Amazon's new e-reader: the Kindle Oasis. It's a pinch-ably thin device with insane battery life.
As in, it's so slim, you could hold it by pinching your index finger and thumb together. It weighs 4.6 ounces and is 3.4 millimeters at its thinnest point.
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LOOK HOW THIN IT IS.
From the side, the Kindle Oasis takes on a wedge-like shape. There's a small "grip" – which is really just another name for the bump where the battery lives.
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True story: the Kindle's profile is so slender that I had troubling getting my camera to focus on it.
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The Kindle Oasis comes with a charging cover (also absurdly slim) that has an extra battery built-in.
With the cover attached, Amazon claims the Oasis gets "months" (although it won't tell us how many – guessing 2?) of battery life and, like the existing Kindle Paperwhite and Voyage, "weeks" without it. For reference, with wireless sync on, my Voyage lasts about a week and a half without being plugged in.
The Kindle Oasis has integrated magnets on the back that snap to the charging cover. From what I've felt and seen, the cover doesn't feel cheap or gimmick-y. The connection is strong and secure but the cover is still easily detachable, like a MacBook's mag safe charger.
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