Hi Donna. Unless they have very recently upddated the manual, the section on Android talks about BrailleBack and how to set this up. The problem is that, though the BrailleBack app is still available on some 3rd party stores, it's not available on the Google Play Store. TalkBack as of 2022 has direct support for braille displays. The feature with pressing enter, typing in the app name and so forth is available with iOS 17 and any supported display.
I hope these things help clerify, Scott On 1/14/24, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I’m a little surprised Mike didn’t get back to you. He was extremely > helpful to me, and very responsive to my questions. Damian is less > responsive it seems, but since Mike is in charge of tech support, it wasn’t > too much of a big deal. But for what it’s worth, I sent quite a few messages > to Helptech in Germany while I was trying to sort through things. It was > during Christmas, of course, and their offices were closed until the 8. But > it’s been a week now, and I still haven’t received a response to any of my > messages. I didn’t want to include that in the review, but that would seem > to be yet another reason not to purchase an Activator. > > I did read the section in the Manual on Android briefly. From what I saw, > it just talked about using it with Android via bluetooth. But since I had > no way to confirm that, I also didn’t want to include it. > > What do you mean by your comment that Launching apps is as simple as > pressing dot 8 and then typing the app name? Which display are you talking > about there? > Cheers, > Donna > >> On Jan 11, 2024, at 9:35 AM, Scott Davert <scottslistm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> 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 <mailto: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 >>> > <mailto: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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