Amazon discontinues the last Kindle with physical buttons

Oct 17, 2024 02:17 AM - 6 months ago 250809

The institution says it won’t beryllium restocking the Kindle Oasis erstwhile it’s sold out.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes astir technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted respective accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Oct 16, 2024, 7:17 PM UTC

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Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still disposable pinch beingness page-turn buttons. The institution announced a caller Kindle lineup earlier today, but Amazon confirmed to The Verge that it’s moving connected from the Oasis.

“Once existent inventory of Kindle Oasis sells retired online and successful stores, we will not restock the device,” Amazon’s Devon Corvasce says successful a statement. “Today, each of our devices are touch-forward which is what our customers are comfortable with.”

Amazon’s ain listing for the Oasis includes a connection that the e-reader is “currently unavailable.”

Amazon first introduced the Kindle Oasis in 2016, positioning it arsenic a high-end e-reader pinch page move buttons and a creation pinch added bulk connected the broadside to make it easier to clasp successful 1 hand. The institution refreshed the e-reader in 2017 and again in 2019, but it hasn’t updated the merchandise since.

The caller Kindles announced coming make for an impressive-looking lineup, including a Paperwhite pinch a larger screen, a Kindle pinch a colour screen, and a second-generation Kindle Scribe. But nary of those person beingness page move buttons.

RIP, Kindle Oasis.