losadigest.blogg.se - Kindle paperwhite v oasis

Personally, I would have a hard time paying full price for an Oasis at this point, but I like having page buttons so I do still like it a bit better. The Kindle Oasis is still one of the nicest ereaders in 2021, but the Kindle Paperwhite 5 adds some new features that might make it hard to justify spending more on the Oasis, especially with its old micro-USB port and poor battery life. Since the software is nearly identical on both, and the screens and frontlights are very similar, it mostly just comes down to the differences in the design and the few new upgrades on the Paperwhite 5.

The glass screen seems to show fingerprints and smudges less than the Paperwhite’s plastic front layer, and perhaps the glass layer is a bit clearer.

Premium build quality with aluminum back and glass front.

Auto-brightness (also available on the Signature Edition Paperwhite).

Smoother page transitions with PDFs and comics (because of the new page animation setting).

Wireless charging (Signature Edition only).

The light on the Oasis does get a bit brighter at the highest setting, but the colors and evenness are about the same.

The frontlights are both very comparable on the two units. I haven’t noticed any ghosting at all on the Paperwhite 5. At the time I just thought it was a software issue that would get resolved eventually but it never has.

Looking back at my Oasis review from 2019, I talked about ghosting being more noticeable than usual. The only notable difference that I can see when comparing the two screens is there’s more ghosting (afterimage effects) on the Oasis. When comparing the new Paperwhite with the previous gen Paperwhite, contrast is a bit better on the new model-the black ink is darker-but when comparing the Oasis 3 to the new Paperwhite I just can’t see enough of a difference to say one is better than the other. The one difference is the Kindle Paperwhite 5 has a new page turn animation setting, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that makes it to the older models as well at some point.

There’s really not a lot to compare since they both run the same software.