The Brax Wink & Why I Won't Be Pre-Ordering

I saw this as I was leaving on my business trip. Brax Wink is officially, officially available for pre-order. You can actually reserve yours today starting at $30, but I believe the original price is $499. But here's the stuff, and I already went through a lot of this. I'm not going to recap all of it, but I do want to highlight this part. Limited quantities apply. the batch one which has less than 800 left ships july 2027 ouch that's that's what eight months away at least and then batch number two would ship in september 2027 so this is a very long time before we can get it i don't know how many devices were in the first batch but i can tell you that only less than 800 are left so i'm assuming maybe they had like 2000 of these that were in the first batch and um if i learned a bit of a hard lesson from the first time which is the the brax 3 that i got is that uh the first i don't want to say it's the first gen product because it's not really a first gen product i mean yeah it's it's the latest iteration of a brax device but what i mean is um the brax 3 that i received from the early batch had some display issues okay and i think there was something with the battery if i'm not mistaken one or the other and of course early software that needed to be ironed out but those those updates came pretty quick just that some people had more difficulty in updating the software than others i do not expect those software kinks to carry over to the brax wink since it's basically all being built by the same um operating system platform that they've been developing i think it's called brax os in this case but the part that is concerning to me is just how many moving parts are on this device because the the second batch if you will of um or the second variation of Brax 3 addresses the problems that I raised in my review so maybe I'm not going to rush out to get this even if I might have to pay a little more so maybe the September batch might be more interesting something to look at but do you really want to invest so early for a device that may get delayed it might be moved up I don't know but the point is that you can so these are some of the highlights about everything the best part about this device is you can feel every word real keys for a tactile experience so yes for those that are wondering why would Clicks Keyboard develop uh the Clicks Communicator device the wannabe BlackBerry designed by former BlackBerry engineers by the way uh because there's a market for it and if there wasn't why would Brax try to do this because there is a market for this but over here is another interesting um piece a real switch privacy within reach enhance your privacy with a single flip this is also a modular device so you can configure the device to your needs as they say and this is what uh what makes this even more unique so and I was right Brax OS uh to protect your data there's a lot to like about this device uh no surveillance and all these different things and it's just like well this part right here is very interesting the data wipe feature you guys know about this like a duress password, full temp wipe, auto wipe, wipe on reboot so these kind of things are i'm glad to see this being adopted to more one of the things i said about unplugged when i had it's like the unplugged phone is not for everyone it just isn't however it was introducing hardware functions that we haven't seen available uh in quite some time or usually in niche markets and now that more people are concerned about privacy and security where more people want to take control or have some more autonomy over their privacy and security and their data it's great to see more companies offer up something similar that's why i'm not claiming that Brax is copying i believe that they wanted to do this too and they're doing it in their own way and i'm so happy to see them do it so they're making this claim that Wink is the most private communicator and i hope it is i truly hope it is but remember the privacy only works as much as you're able to remain private because you're standing in on someone's internet you're you're telling them who you are where you are because you're connected to this said device so there's only so much you can do yeah i'm talking about you guys over the GrapheneOS community too but i love to see this at the hardware level and the software level coming to fruition we need more of this stuff in the competitive space and i'm glad there they are so now that you have a Brax 3 device and you have a new iteration of a device that hasn't been seen before which is much smaller at a four inch display and that's the Brax Wink and it's modular so you can swap the keyboard you can just use the dinky little screen you know it's like you can do so much and that's really really cool if you're interested you like it i did a video on this and other products that Brax is developing then go check that out