Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

UPDATE since November purchase 1. Clearly, Amazon's Kindle Product Management Team did not conduct anthropological and UX consumer field tests in northern states. The coldness of the unit maks holding it painful to the point of needing a barrier between fingers and metal surface, and the totally smooth back, combined with unit weight means unusual finger pressure must be applied to hold it without dropping or sliding which leads to hand and finger muscular fatigue. A simple fix of a thin silicon skin would have aliviated this issue. 2. Battery life is shorter than Voyage or Original Oasis.Significantly short. 3. Pages skip rapidly and at random when Oasis 2 is held in one hand with thumb initating page turns - in all books purchased. 4. I have experienced three total freezes where the Oasis 2 can't be turned off and must wait until unit self-reboots My initial review is below. Most appauling Us Amazon's Kindle Team's lack of response and marketing department arrogance in not addressing these issues. As a long time Amazon (and Kindle) customer, i expect more of a company that enjoys such consumer loyalty I love it, really enjoy the reading experience (screen crispness, illiumination,) overrides the flaws that are serious enough that unless you are a voracious e-book reader or high-loyalty Kindle customer, you might want to consider the smaller 6" Oasis with integrated cover or the narrower/heavier Voyager. 1) the Kindle Product Group should consider offering a one or two finger back-of-Oasis2017 accessory that makes it easier to hold the Kindle with one hand. Too much one hand pressure is needed to hold the Kindle comfortably. 2) the touch screen is too sensitive at the left edge causing multiple page advances if just a small portion of one's thumb brushes the screen. 3) the "clicks" when using the hard buttons emit a far-too-loud sound that in the quiet of a bedroom is loud enough to interfere with the sleep of a partner. 4) Kindle/Amazon should be mature and self-assured enough not to over-promise on battery life. Real-time usage gives the battery only a day or so before recharging is necessary. To advertise weeks is just purly misleading, and beneath what I believe Jeff Bezos has in mind as to what Amazon stands for. It's unconscionable. 5. It seems that arrogance has taken over the Kindle group, and consumer real-use research has been thrown to the side to just rely on the opinions of Amazon product managers or hired anthropological researchers that do not conduct pre-release research in "living lab" ICT usage studies with both light and heavy users of Amazon Kindles. If they did, the buttons would be silent, the accessory offerings would include finger holders for back-of-Kindle one-hand support, and a less slippery back panel so hand grips that would need less muscular pressure would be part of the launch product design. The almost complete absence of Kindle Customer Service managers' responses to questions or comments about the new Kindle or the problems with the new covers support this thesis. 6. Having my previous WiFi with 3G Kindles all having "offerings" on sleep and wake up screens, I am offended that I could not get that for the slightly lower pricing on the 32Gig 3G, WiFi Oasis2017. I am not disgruntled, rather I am a loyal heavy Kindle user who owns this new Kindle w WiFi & 3G, the 6" Oasis, and the Voyager -- all the older Kindles with 3G offerings and have owned all previous Kindles to the Voyager. I am still happy with the new Oasis, but feel disappointed that Amazon could not have done better with a bit more consumer hands-on research and conversations with existing users.