you raise a great point faith. one has only to look at the monstrosity that is the new ti nspire keyboard to see the main problem--the input method. you can buy a $99 palm pilot that has stylus input, why do our calculators not have that simple method of user input which would solve 85% of the ugly keyboard and alpha-mode problems that make me wince in advance each time i reach for a cas calculator knowing i'm going to have to input text.
it makes you wonder what we're actually paying for? the programming of the chips that was basically done 20 or 30 years ago? i would gladly pay triple the price of the most expensive hp or ti model to have just a usable, not a brilliant, just a usable input method and and output i can actually read with squinting or going to another room where the light is better. we should be able to have calculators every bit as sleek and serviceable as ipods or pda or, at the absolute minimum, cell phones.
admit it, we are stuck in the stone age and no one seems to want to be innovative and only stack features on top of a structure that no longer will support those features.
/guy
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Fatih Can <f_can2003@...> wrote:guys
i've been reading all correspondence with joy and benefiting a lot...
having read the recent ones on ergonomics, connectivity of the machine don't you think that we, who spent at least 2-3 hrs a day with calculators, deserve better resolutions, colors and video quality?
who would HP not consider to develop calcs that have the same features that we see in the PDAs of HP or any mobile phone nowadays?
simply why should we care to change AAAs -by the way HP50g is a good eater- but recharge our calcs as we do our phones?
fatih