TI-84 calculator reportedly being updated with a color screen - Polidicks

I feel so old and outdated with my TI-84 Silver...

Now I can play Dota 2 on my calculator!

You kids got it so easy My school confiscated cell phones and shit like this, even if you have a form of asthma And your cell phone was something you could use in an emergency, they took it and didn't give it back until the end of the year. The girl's parents even went up there and the school refused to give it back, citing their zero tolerance policy. What mindless zombie drones my school officials were

Providing I can even connect to a match :suicide: edit: broke my automerge

Won't the battery life be really shitty with a color screen? On my TI-84SE, the 4xAAA batteries have been replaced like, once and I've used it for 3 years.

[QUOTE=Van-man;38399632]Could probably get bluetooth sensors that can that. Or usb devices + Android phone supporting OTG.[/QUOTE] Okay, so show me a $150 smartphone that has support for a suite of data collection tools built in and a large physical keypad. You "could probably" do a lot with a phone, that doesn't make the phone the best suited device for that task.

[QUOTE=Saber15;38399912]Won't the battery life be really shitty with a color screen? On my TI-84SE, the 4xAAA batteries have been replaced like, once and I've used it for 3 years.[/QUOTE] yeah, you'll have to replace your 4xAAA batteries every year instead texas instruments must be fucking retarded

[QUOTE=TheTalon;38399894]You kids got it so easy My school confiscated cell phones and shit like this, even if you have a form of asthma And your cell phone was something you could use in an emergency, they took it and didn't give it back until the end of the year. The girl's parents even went up there and the school refused to give it back, citing their zero tolerance policy. What mindless zombie drones my school officials were[/QUOTE] That would generally be classified as theft legally, at least in the states. I suppose some private schools could get away with it, but public schools wouldn't stand a chance in hell if someone pushed it. It's funny how fast most of those policies get overturned when the threat of legal action gets involved.

It's about damn time. I hate having to rely on dotted/solid lines to make multiple lines on a graph.

I don't get it, It's a calculator. Whats the beef?

[QUOTE=Si`Sik;38400013]I don't get it, It's a calculator. Whats the beef?[/QUOTE] you must not be smart enough to work on real math

[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;38399947]Okay, so show me a $150 smartphone that has support for a suite of data collection tools built in and a large physical keypad. You "could probably" do a lot with a phone, that doesn't make the phone the best suited device for that task.[/QUOTE] I don't know about finding a 150 dollar phone, but it's quite reasonable to say that a large chunk of the populace already HAS a phone capable of doing these things, and doing them significantly better than a 150 dollar calculator ever could. All you need is a decent interface to work off of touchscreens, and some form of adapter to plug into the USB port so you can hook all the old connectors to your device. Is it a viable market? Hard to say, but I think you can definitely say that there are people who would buy into it. I will say that since I got access to a mathmatica license, I haven't used my calculator outside of tests, and one or two specific niche uses. It's quite literally just pointless weight to carry with me in almost all occasions.

My school made us buy the TI-Nspire CX Cas. it costs $150 and the main reason is so teachers dont have to teach the lesson. it has a Solve() function.

I still have an old TI-89 When I first used it for high school I had no idea it could solve equations and shit, once I figured out how to I was like oh my god this is awesome

This is all I remember about trig: [IMG]http://i47.tinypic.com/zjjre0.gif[/IMG]

My high school is trying hard to be more modern, so they're trying out allowing us to use our smartphones as calculators and other tools (at the teachers' discretion and if they think you're cheating they're still allowed to take it up, or ask you to solve a problem manually). They also encourage us to use twitter and etc to communicate, and have a mobile version of the school website I think. They also have wifi throughout the whole school and let us bring laptops and play video games at lunch and other times, such as during class if we've finished our work. It's pretty neat. The kicker is I live in the middle of nowhere in Texas, yet my school is way more accepting of technology than the one I went to in the city. :v:

[QUOTE=jung3o;38400106]My school made us buy the TI-Nspire CX Cas. it costs $150 and the main reason is so teachers dont have to teach the lesson. it has a Solve() function.[/QUOTE] And here I just use Maple on a laptop for the parts I don't fully understand.

[url]http://handycalc.wordpress.com/[/url] best smart phone calculator ever all I need ever

Holy shit, TI calculators got upgraded to 1998 technology!

These calculators are too expensive. Over $100 for a calculator is ridiculous

[QUOTE=Angus725;38399615]You're a genius, the company that can connect typical sensory devices to mobile phones is going to go far. Imagine connecting this to your phone. [img]http://pimg.tradeindia.com/00334984/b/0/Digital-PH-Meter.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [img]http://blog.allusb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Mobius-Ultrasound-USB-smartphone.jpg[/img] Although to be fair, this is for places where it would be hard/too expensive to ship actual ultrasound units to, so it does serve a useful purpose.

I've been rocking a TI-89 Titanium since 8th grade, now in 12th. Teachers still haven't caught on to calcs with algebra calculation functionality and I can still solve() my way to victory :P I have not been able to tap its full functionality yet, however, because I am only in precalculus so far :/

[QUOTE=meppers;38400062]you must not be smart enough to work on real math[/QUOTE] Would you like fries with that?

[QUOTE=teh pirate;38400229]My high school is trying hard to be more modern, so they're trying out allowing us to use our smartphones as calculators and other tools (at the teachers' discretion and if they think you're cheating they're still allowed to take it up, or ask you to solve a problem manually). They also encourage us to use twitter and etc to communicate, and have a mobile version of the school website I think. They also have wifi throughout the whole school and let us bring laptops and play video games at lunch and other times, such as during class if we've finished our work. It's pretty neat. The kicker is I live in the middle of nowhere in Texas, yet my school is way more accepting of technology than the one I went to in the city. :v:[/QUOTE] Schools trying to be tech savvy often results in hilarious unforseen consequences. Imagine a twitter bot tweeting everyone their grades publicly. I've seen way too much crap like this happen.

Why a fucking TI-84? TI-89 is seriously where it's at. Every time I use a piece of shit 84 I wish it were an 89.

[QUOTE=Chase827;38400496]I've been rocking a TI-89 Titanium since 8th grade, now in 12th. Teachers still haven't caught on to calcs with algebra calculation functionality and I can still solve() my way to victory :P I have not been able to tap its full functionality yet, however, because I am only in precalculus so far :/[/QUOTE] I have one of these calculators which I use in college (Electrical Engineering). It's a seriously awesome beast or algebra. I do wish it had a better screen though, and I also bought it 4 months before the NSpire CAS came out. This makes me sad.

My TI-83 is crying softly

My father's HP49G had a huge unit library, in SI and in Imperial, and if you set up the equations right it would give the answer in the correct units, too. I love that thing. I just wish I could have made it balance chemical equations, too. Probably could have if I ever bothered splicing/making it a data cable.

Port Clang to it. EDIT: Or at least write a C compiler for it.

[QUOTE=Van-man;38399281]Waiting for someone to port GameBoy color games to it. Oh, and DOOM in full color ofcourse.[/QUOTE] Whenever I'm bored in math I just load up DOOM 2 on my TI-Nspire CX. I've gotten pretty good at it considering the control scheme