So HP calculators have been … well not frequent. And from the perspective of a casual calculator user HP might as well not exist. If you wanna buy a new useful scientific calculator it’s TI or Casio and maybe sharp. However with the recent announcement that there would be a collectors edition re-release of the HP 15c it looks like the new owners of the HP calculator brand do care! Well at least a bit. So what do you think they will do next? Do you believe HP still has a great calculator in them? What would be your dream HP calculator?
I’m not asking facetiously, what could a new calculator do better? I had one of those treasured 2000s-era TI- something’s graphing calculators. But left it with my ex because her kids were getting older. I was like, the kids will laugh but might need it for an SAT thing.
Are the graphing calculators these days competitive with average smartphones? Why can’t I get a smartphone that is more like a graphing calculator?
Well i personally was more thinking non-graphing calculators. I personally feel once i want graphs and complex programs I’m better off using a laptop. I feel like when comparing the HP prime smartphone app and the real HP prime, then there is something to having physical buttons that does help.
I’m not really a numbers guy, but tactile buttons for alphabets in an interface is also super cool. Aka mechanical keyboards or whatever.
I miss the slide-out keyboard on my last non-smart phone (probably back in 2009 or so).
Probably you wouldn’t like the BlackBerry movie either, not sure of its accuracy, but it does seem like Research in Motion was eaten alive by jackals.
Purely from an exam perspectives, calculators might be allowed but phones are not?
Never understood that either. I was not clever enough to program my calculator very much. But some of those calculators can run Doom.