Post #3972368

2026-07-20 23:20 UTC

Here are my findings on the hardware of the Orbit Player vs the SensePlayer. The Orbit Player uses a MediaTek Helio P22 (octa-core Cortex-A53, 4 1.8 GHZ cores and 4 1.5 GHZ cores). It has 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage. The SensePlayer uses a MediaTek Helio P35 (octa-core Cortex-A53 again, 4 2.3 GHZ cores and 4 1.8 GHZ cores). It has 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. Both devices use the same exact GPU. So basically both the Orbit Player and the SensePlayer use the exact same SOC except the SensePlayer has higher clock speeds and more RAM and double the storage. Both these SOCs are from 2018 by the way, although perhaps that is not a big deal for a small book and media playback device. I wonder if the Orbit Speak and Strata use the same exact SOC though or a better one.

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@emassey0135@caneandable.social 2026-07-20 23:21

Also both devices are very insecure, with SELinux in permissive mode and root access exposed with no permission prompt or password. On the Orbit Player the bootloader is unlocked so anyone can easily flash their own firmware image, and on the SensePlayer the Android build is userdebug and root is enabled by su shipped in the system image which is usually something you would only do in a debug build. On the Orbit Player, Magisk is installed on top of the image for root access. File-based encryption works on both, but on both I tested setting a lockscreen password and the Android screen reader couldn't handle it either. On the SensePlayer I could type the password and unlock the device but then when I restarted it, the screen reader didn't work so I had to use ADB and SCRCPY to get back in. On the Orbit Player, I can type the password on the lock screen, but for the Android screen reader to read the lock screen and let me navigate, I had to launch an Android app with ADB. And then when I typed my password, I couldn't press enter and the unlock button didn't activate when I pressed it, so I had to press enter from the ADB shell. So basically file-based encryption is useless on both because setting a lockscreen password makes both devices unusable without ADB connected. So I guess that means you should never store any sensitive information on these devices. At least the BrailleSense 7 allows you to set an encryption password as described in the manual so it should be more secure, but I wonder what the Orbit Speak and Strata are like. I hope they are more secure so you can store sensitive documents and passwords on them.

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