Nice review, Donna! Part of why I have not published an article on this device is because Dream Vision never responded to a couple of questions I had. One of them being the lack of ability to connect to Android. I was hoping to get official confirmation of this before throwing it into the universe, but here we are. I agree, for that much money, it has quite a bit of progress to make before it's ready for the masses. It feels like a beta device to me. The file transfer thing with the dock is neat. However, USB-C support is emerging for other devices, so that's not unique. The news service is, but launching apps is now as simple as pressing dot 8, typing the first word of the app, and then activating it. 2 years ago, this would have been a huge hit, though. The easiest way to check the battery status is when you turn the Activator on. It's displayed as part of the opening message or whatever you want to call it. What would have been the harm in creating a keyboard shortcut to check the battery status like what is found on every other device out there?
Just my perspective, Scott On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 5:28 PM 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries < macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi Sabahattin, > > You’re welcome. The interface with the iPhone is definitely worth being > excited about. But I came to the conclusion that it didn’t offset the > other minuses, as you can tell. I find it strange and ironic that they > designed this display that is clearly intended to function in the > Appleverse, and then tied it to a PC for things like updating. I get that > people with iPhones do have PCs, but you’d think that they would have made > either an iPhone or a Mac updating method available. > Cheers, > Donna > > > On Jan 10, 2024, at 2:41 PM, 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries < > macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > Thank you for an excellent review, Donnah. > > > > I guess unsurprisingly, the part that interests me most is > thecombination of iPhone and Activator, since that's clearly the dominant > use case, but the assembly sounds rather brittle and then the issue of > newer USB-C iphones. I won't be buying any time soon, but I'd be interested > to see how this develops. > > > > Some of the other stuff is rather less inspiring though. Windows is at > fault for the USB issues, though presumably that will get fixed, however > the requirement to use Windows to update firmware just makes me sad. Again, > I hope there's a fix, in some not-too-distant future. The interface sounds > rather primitive though, which strikes me as a bit of a red flag seeing as > how it's supposed to improve on the iPhone for editing tasks. All the > technology in the world can't help if it's not efficient to use for that, > and since the whole point is to marry that efficiency with your existing > phone's functionality, rather than replacing it, they probably need to > improve their software considerably for me to consider switching away from > a Focus or any display with stored Braille input capability. Again, I'll be > interested to see how others find it after they've done some more work on > their software. > > > > Thanks again for your review. 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