It's only a matter of time before someone makes a similar device with a decent LLM on it, and premium ones will have more memory/cpu power.
I know exactly what you're talking about because my father-in-law had the same thing. I'm just very skeptical that specialist hardware will overtake general commoditized computing devices for mass-market usage. The economics alone make it unlikely.
One of them has an unlimited "free forever" internet subscription so it can fetch network translations online if the local dictionary doesn't have the word.
[0] even other tech developers who, like me, migrated somewhere where a language barrier came up
Wiki says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ot%C3%A1vio_Good
To develop Word Lens, Otávio Good founded Quest Visual Inc., which was acquired by Google, Inc. in 2014, leading to the incorporation of the Word Lens feature into the Google Translate app in 2015.The people I show it to are surprised that it's possible in 2023, even though it was demoed at the end of 2010.
Not only have they never heard of Word Lens, they are also obvious of the corresponding feature of Google Translate.