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!

I'm not that stoked. Just another notetaker that will go unnoticed. People really gotta start making this s**t cheaper if they want the average blind braille reader to care. And I buy my own phones directly, no contracted pay as I go nonsense where I'm locked into something. The fact notetakers are still being developed at all is staggering, especially at current prices. Would rather have a dumb braille display that interfaces with anything and go from there.
Basically, if prices were not ridiculous I might give habbf a thought to buying one. Otherwise, nah. Would rather go on a swanky vacation or buy a custom guitar, something that'll outlast me.

Notetakers should really be called an agency industry. Nobody else can take them seriously. Most people, I should say. There's always someone who can drop 5 g's on something and not feel the burn.

But small size note taker (in terms of software).
Humanware BI 40x is the best braille display I've ever had from both a material but also software POV. It does just enough things but not ever pretend to replace x or y, just to be a standalone complementary device when needed. I am at my 5th year in college and would have loved to have this earlier.
IMO the focus 5 from vispero is too limitted plus I don't like the focus (coming from a 4th).
When you do presentation, the worse thing that can happen is bluetooth randomly disconnecting... During said presentation. A minimum note taker is good.
In terms of software orbit do the best, their update files are less than 1mb, it's actually good craft low level code that's rarer nowadays. A friend of mine was able to load a 15-20m characters integral pure .txt file in the orbit in seconds and it was able to go to the beginning / end without any delay. While the stream 3 from hw is a downgrade over the stream 2 it can't even load a 1m file while the vrstream2 was able to load a 6m without issues.