Amazon is going to announce a new Kindle this week called the Kindle Oasis. Details already leaked early on its name, and now a bunch of pictures on TMall (its has since been pulled) together with some additional specs have turned up as well.
The Kindle Oasis has a new asymmetrical, tapered design with page buttons on one side of the screen. It comes equipped with an accelerator so that you can flip it 180 degrees to use the page buttons on either side.
The specs are in Chinese so it’s hard to know for certain but it certainly appears to have a 6-inch E Ink screen with 300 ppi.
The Kindle Oasis has a tapered design that is thicker where the buttons are located and thinner on the other side. It goes from 8.5mm down to 3.4mm.
If you compare this with the Kindle Voyage is 7.6mm thick. The Oasis weighs 131 grams compared with the Voyage which weighs 180 grams.
Some additional information translated by a redditor:
- The case is leather and extends the Kindle’s battery life up to “several months.”
- There are 12 magnets that hold the case and Kindle together, but which make it easy to remove as well.
- Amazon says the thicker-on-one-side design leads to an ergonomically streamlined grip that shifts the weight to your palm.
- The battery case comes in three colors, black, brown, and red, and it’s described as “included” with the Kindle Oasis, which suggests that it will be included in the base price of the eReader and not sold as a separate accessory.
- When unplugged, the case can charge the Kindle’s battery. When plugged in, both batteries will be charged.
- There are 60% more LED light sources, whatever that means.
Here are more pics in case they get taken down.
