Thoughts on the upcoming braille sense 7

the average person can't afford this technology; a sighted person wouldn't pay over £3000 when ipads cost £599 sorry, but true. they are ripping us off.

I was hoping they'd have went away from Android and did a windows or linux device like the rest of the industry. Would make it way more useful. And honestly why don't they update the 6 to android 14 or 15? It can run it. But meh. They really should've made it an arm headless laptop like the new BrailleNote or Blazie BT Braille. Honestly I hate that I'm saying this but if I was to buy a new notetaker I'd get the BrailleNote evolve sense it's built on windows and will be far more capable. One thing that would've made the android devices especially the mini BrailleSense way more useful is to have cellular ability so you could use it as a phone. But meh.

this device, like most braille devices is so pointless, the only one i would ever consider using is an orbit reader, the breef time i had my orbit reader 20 it worked well till it just stopped charging one day, it was so easy to pair and just go, no messing around in confusing menus just to get it paired like the mantis or other braille displays

Dude, the orbit was good in its simplicity, but for long reading, doing presentations and such, the refresh rate slowed me down and made it harder to concentrate instead of easier, and after about 30 minutes of reading, my fingers couldn't take any more of those dots. Way to firm for my liking, and for what I mostly use Braille for, show notes for an online radio show, the Orbit was just too loud. Now, I have both a Focus 40 (as part of my ElBraille) and one of the NLS e-readers. That tiny nls e-reader is awesome. I don't really need much more than that. The ElBraille is underpowered for today's computers, but for just browsing, documents, the occasional radio work, it works pretty well. I think I would enjoy a play with some of the newer stuff coming out, just to see how they implement stuff, but can't say I really need it. Between my phone and laptop, plus stuff like the meta glasses, I'm pretty set. Plus like others have already said, these devices are way too expensive for most people to ever afford on their own. I would have never gotten the ElBraille had I not known someone who had it sitting around, didn't care for it, didn't use it, and was able to make a trade for it. Otherwise, nope.

The only thing I can add is that the book sense reader is very nice!