Re: Affordable Braille Displays: Cost vs Quality
The 32 cell displays on allot of notetakers usually didn't feel too cramped for me, but I'd imagine that a 20 would.
40 is more ideal though.
IMO (slow) autorefresh is agonizing, and takes away much of the usefulness of a braille display.
I would much prefer manual.
Bluetooth isn't a must, but if you could pay like 50 bucks more for a model with it, than that would be great, since really, that's as much as you should have to pay at this point for decent Bluetooth (E.G. doesn't drop constantly or take for ever to scan slash pair) anyway.
With all the sub 150USD phones that have it, their just isn't any good excuse for it to cost so much outside of HQ audio or connection stability critical stuff like robotics; I'm not asking for multiple device profiles or switching on the fly either.
Same goes for physical memory or an SD card slot, things that are truthfully very useful for notes, but are often artificially overpriced.
I'd probably pay around 200USD extra for both things together, since you need firmware and batteries, and it means more things can go wrong, so if you offered repairs you may need more people or someone with more experience.
Speaking of batteries, I'd be fine with plain old double or triple A's on a wireless model to drive costs down if needed, they do it with mice right? :-)
As for the total, I'd really just hope for under 1000, since it seems foolish to try and go from 3K or so down to 500 in one go, and I insist on good build quality, both externally and internally; plus, maybe an included carrying case and cleaning kit, though I'd buy those things separately for like 60 and 25USD each as long as they were decent quality.
I haven't had a modern braille display for quite a long time though, mostly I'm going off my friend's experiences, so take my opinion for what that's worth.
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