Amazon has leaked a new update to the Kindle Paperwhite, which looks like a chunky Kindle Oasis, but without the buttons.
Kindle Paperwhite: One Year Later REVIEW
The Paperwhite is the sweet spot in the Kindle line. It’s fancier than the base Kindle, but still much, much less expensive than the top-of-the-line Oasis. And when this new Paperwhite launches, that spot will remain — for a while — sweet spot, with it surpassing or at least equaling the Oasis in most features. But even with this solid update, does the Kindle still lag behind the e-reader market as a whole?
"The new Kindle doesn't appear to have any features that top anything Kobo has produced in recent years. Some Kobo models have had auto-adjusting headlights, water resistance, and flat screens for a while now," Alex Cabal, president of the online writing community Scribophile, told Lifewire via email.
Amazon "accidentally" leaked the next Paperwhite on a comparison page on its Canadian site (since removed), and followed that move with an official announcement on Tuesday. It will come with the same two 8GB and 32GB storage options, with the larger capacity model being dubbed the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition.
