Screen quality is the number-one complaint about the Oasis on e-reader fan sites such as mobileread and kboards, where disappointment in the new device is palpable. Some users also find that the Oasis screen image looks washed-out compared to the amazingly sharp contrast of the Voyage. On the Oasis, however, 10 LEDs are arrayed at the side edge in a way that produces visible, and distracting, cones of light and shadow and a subtle shift of tint as the eye travels along a line of print.
The frontlighting of the Voyage, which comes from six LEDs concealed beneath the bottom edge of the screen, produces a uniform glow that’s easy on the eyes but yields a sharp image that appears to sit on the surface of the screen, almost like print on paper. Oasis #2, like the first, was plainly defective, but the other two show what seems at least to be a serious design error that mars the only part of an e-reader that truly matters: the screen. Kindle Oasis customer “ceremOny” on Īll have been or are about to be returned. It’s a beautiful rose with some painful thorns. I’m not really comfortable with letting these faults with the screen slide…. Since then I have road-tested three more Oases (Oasises?) purchased at retail, one from Amazon and two from Best Buy.
The Oasis arrived three weeks later, and was so obviously defective that it was back in the mail to Amazon within an hour. Cnet: “ The best e-reader ever, but the sky-high price hurts its appeal.” Reviewers in the tech press grumbled about the new device’s $290 base price but were otherwise euphoric.
It was said to boast the same sharp front-lighted screen as the Kindle Voyage, which was introduced in 2014 as the $199 flagship of the line and remains my e-reader of choice. The Oasis was unimaginably thin and light, came with a detachable leather cover with an integrated battery that would extend the time between recharging from weeks to months.
As a devoted reader of e-books and an early adopter of consumer technology, I felt a visceral frisson of anticipation in April, when Amazon announced its newest, gaudiest Kindle e-reader.
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