Finally, human web decides to update the braille note touch plus after three years. This is a long and overdue update, however, it is a good one and it was worth waiting for. Here other key updates. Key math has been renamed to the key graph, emphasizing the new change on the monarch by human wear, and the American printing house for the blind. Second of all, there is a new recording app called key recorder. I have a feeling that this will be useful for those who like to take notes on the go or just like to record in general. Bearing in mind at the microphone is trash on the actual device itself, but you can plug in an external microphone, which makes it even easier to hear you. However, if you are on the go, you’ll probably just use the main device microphone instead. And, key soft has been updated, although there is barely any changes that you can notice with the actual update. That’s basically the major changes. In my opinion, terrible. Human wear, we thought that you would be able to give us a bit more freedom with key, soft, but no. You just give us two new applications and mine updates to the apps that we use. However, braille manager gets an update, and the fact that key code only got a bug fix is just outrageous. I wonder what your opinion is on this update? So far, I’m 50-50. I’m verging to the point where I don’t like this update, but not at all, I just don’t like it. I’m 50-50 at the moment anyway. Anyway, leave your opinions in the comments below.
By Blind soft, 25 September, 2025
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Android update
In my honest opinion humanware should release a new braille note touch plus with an updated android operating system.
The current touch plus runs on android 8.1 where whereas the Braille Sense 6 runs on android 12 which is newer.
For people I'd recommend the braille sense 6 over the touch plus.
Does it have some bugs yes but it's far better than the touch plus and you can do a lot more with it in terms of connecting external devices and all that.
They should just update current devices on decent android
The braille note touch has 8 cells less than your traditional display but costsmore than entry level embosser just for an infinitely worse outdated tablet. I'll never understand that why they are still not updating android inside. It will be just easier for their own devs to do stuff on recent versions.
What we really need is an Android update
As someone who relies heavily on G-suite apps on the BNT+ I won't be fully satisfied until they release a device compatible with the latest Android updates. My Braille Note also turns off anywhere between 20 and 50% and just will not do anything until plugged in. It is not dead, if it were dead it'd at least pretend to turn on, it'll say starting keysoft for a long time then shut off. This device will just turn off and not do anything at all no mater how long I press the power button for. To be honest it's 3-4 years old and I may need a new one...but who knows the new update might stall the old-device behavior for a while LOL
There's more to updating just the Android part
Updating Android on a BrailleSense or BrailleNote is way harder than on a normal phone. These devices don't just run Android. They have a whole extra system sitting on top of it, the custom layer that makes braille input, output, and accessibility features work. So when Android updates, it's not just "install and go." The company has to rebuild and re-tune that entire braille system so it works smoothly with the new version. That's a huge amount of work, and it's why updates come slowly, if at all. Selvas themselves admitted that even getting the BrailleSense 6 up to Android 12 was a real struggle. And if jumping to 12 was that difficult, imagine trying to get all the way to Android 16. Four version leaps? That would probably break their overhead entirely. By the time they managed to rebuild everything for that, Android 18 would already be around the corner. That was one of the huge caveats of this design from the start, and honestly, it's why these devices should have just been built as a straight-up Android braille tablet instead of layering an overhead OS on top.
Well they can still do that if hardware allows?
Not underestimating the dev time here, but they can still just ship whatever newer android they easily can (aosp) and just install keysoft apps as a launcher on top and let people access stock unpolished android if they want can't they?
impressions of newest braillenote touch plus update
I just got the update for my braillenot touch plus this afternoon. It seems like the only thing they gave us was a few new apps, with no major updates to apps that come installed on the device. One issue I've had ever since I got my braillenote touch plus is after I add a word to the dictionary, the spellchecker in keyword still thinks the word is wrong. Its small things like this I want to get fixed, not giving us new apps every three or four years.
Re: Well they can still do that if hardware allows? Bookmark
If it were only that simple. Issue is, most of those apps aren't technically even Android. They're, I'd say part Android part overhead. Android enough to be compatible, but not native. Remove the overhead and those apps stop working altogether.