Braille notetakers and their usefulness in 2022

Hello,

I've been thinking about this for a while.
In your opinion, are Braille notetaker devices, such as the Braille not touch, or el-braille useful in 2022, or has that entire market segment outlived its usefulness?

No. Braille displays are expencive ennough as it is, and putting a gimmick smart OS on it makes it even more expencive. Most blind people do not make the kinds of money to even get a braille display to begin with, so they have to appeal to an organization or a government institution and hopefully get them to pay for it. Bluetooth braile displays and a phone or computer is the way to go.

I don't think that they are useful for the same reasons as post 2, but they are also larger and heavier than a braille display. The keyboard have to be loud so they feel somewhat good, and they are expensive. You can buy a tablet without the braille display that has the same specs as the notetaker for about $300, guessing here, and then go buy a braille display for that, still $3000, but that's not $6000. And if one thing fails or you don't like the size, upgrade it.

I think they are still very useful
Take now for instance the Braille Sense 6 from Hims Inc. You can take it anywhere with you; it doesn't weigh that heavy at all; you can download and install apps from Google Play; listen to thousands of radio stations and Podcasts; record; FM radio Wordpad Notepad and so much more.
Yes, it costs a little bit money but it's worth its price. I have it and I am very happy about it. I'm using it every day. It's so easy for reading books.

I use a braille note taker, because I cant get windows 10 to use nemeth braille code for math. so I guess there is some use for them for me

i tend to type faster on a note taker then i do on a computer, I have a braille sence 6 by the way

All you described here, Railwayguy, works much more smoothly on a computer. And notetakers are ridiculously expensive anyway so I don't know what most of you all love about them.

I mean they exist, and they keep existing, which means that they are at the very least a sustainable business fitt at the expence of being super costly. Pluss, it's convenient for blind people and the world just loves convenience right now. Take Humanwares victor reader stream for example. You can basically do anything you could with this with a phone, sometimes even better, except mostly there are no sd card slots or, recently, a headphone jack. Who knows how many of them they sell, but they still keep selling them. This is going to keep going for a while.

That's what I try to tell people who tell me about their Victor Readers. I tell them that it is thick, slow, still using a physical keypad, worse mic than a phone, about the same price as a cheap phone which can do a lot more things, and specialized. I can spend twice on a new phone that does a lot more. I cn't watch videos, play games, check weather, message, email, video or voice chat with a Victor reader, but my phone does all of those with ease.

Nothing like old-fashioned buttons rather than poking around on a touch screen. When I want to read I want to get right to it. Now, back to topic.

Just learn where things are on the screen. Problem solved.

@10 Here here! I grew up typing on keyboards and I'm gonna stick with it. Touch screen memorization is great, right up until there's a massive UI update and things get moved around.

And what then? Swipe through the touchscreen once again and you'll get the new positions. Not a big deal really. But yeah, that's called entitlement.

what if we have a fully functional braille notetaker with linux in it! it will be great! we would have linux everywhere!

We have the Braillenote Touch since Android is (technically) Linux.

is android linux? than how to access terminal?
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We have the Braillenote Touch since Android is (technically) Linux.

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@14 Great idea here! I personally have a Focus 5 and enjoy the possibility of being able to choose to either use it with my computer, or alone independent of any other device to read books, take notes etc. So I'm a fan of Braille notetakers.

I think they can be useful, but not on top of 5 year old Android, with 3 year old diverged TalkBack.

Oh, I think they've not outgrown their usefulness. If only they weren't so expensive, I'd be getting a Braille Sense without a doubt. It's a great device with some very welcome features. Well worth it if only I could fund getting one. Even with financing I wouldn't be able to buy one on my own.

I think that for some people in some cases, yes. Braille notetakers are still useful. However, with technology being how it is at present, this could very well change in a few years time.