It’s a seven-inch diagonal, up from the six-inch screen size Amazon uses on all its other current Kindles. It’s thicker, heavier, wider, and taller-but at least the increased width and height means that the screen is large. The fact is, the second-generation Oasis is scaled up in all dimensions.
This new one weighs 6.8 ounces, slightly heavier than the Kindle Voyage and slightly lighter than the Kindle Paperwhite. But about that weight: Free of its case, the old Oasis weighed only 4.6 ounces, making it the lightest Kindle by quite a bit.
The second-generation Oasis is still shaped like the original model-it’s got a thicker side (8.3mm) that’s easier to grip and features the two page-turn buttons, and a thinner side (3.4mm) that helps the devices weigh less. The mandatory case is gone, the price has dropped $40 to $250, and the hardware itself has bulked up. The second-generation Kindle Oasis still holds down the top of Amazon’s Kindle product line, but it’s a very different product than the original model. Without its mandatory battery case, it was impossibly thin and light, and brought back the hardware page-turn buttons that Amazon seemingly abandoned several generations of Kindle ago. Though nobody needed to buy a $290 ebook reader, it was the best Kindle you could buy. I loved the first-generation Kindle Oasis. Note: This story has not been updated for several years. Kindle Oasis (2017, second generation) Review: Is bigger better?
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