Yet a new TI calculator with color screen ?!

[Mic]

Hello,

It is the TI-84 Pocket SE (currently only sold in Asia) with a color screen :
http://www.calc-bank.com/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1748

Will we see TI89 or Voyage 200 with colour screens ??...
Will HP release its first color calc ?

[Thomas Radtke]

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Will HP release its first color calc ?

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Only those obligated to a NDA would know.

[hpnut]

Call me old school but I believe a colour screen won't add much to the functionality of a calculator, especially an RPN one.

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

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Call me old school but I believe a colour screen won't add much to the functionality of a calculator, especially an RPN one.

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To the functionality maybe not. But colour contrast together with brighntness contrast (black and white) greatly enhances the readability compared to brightness alone. And for graphic displays, colour is essential anyway.

[Walter B]

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... for graphic displays, colour is essential anyway.

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IMHO, good 2d graphics works without color as well if not better than with. And 3d graphics is seldom good, according to my practical experience. YMMV.

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

What about real 3D graphics?

[Massimo Gnerucci (Italy)]

No holodeck and odorama? :-)

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

Holodeck would be great as well, but I fear the technology is not available yet :-)

[Patrice]

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Call me old school but I believe a colour screen won't add much to the functionality of a calculator, especially an RPN one.

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For a RPN one, you are right.

But for a graphing one, color can be of great help

on the HP39GII, if you try to plot 10 functions in the function explorer app, I am sure colors will help to see which curve belong to which function.


Patrice

[Garth Wilson]

I'd like to see what the battery life is. I definitely wouldn't want to be having to recharge all the time like a cell phone, and I am not aware of any technology that would allow good battery life with a color display. I have no use for color myself.

[bluesun08]

The customers (teachers, students) will answer the question: color or not color?

[Ethan Conner]

I think they will answer yes.

[Eddie W. Shore]

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I think they will answer yes.

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Agree. The models available right now (Casio Prizm, TI nSpire CX) are quite impressive.

[From Hong Kong]

Considering a lot of games already written for the TI-84+ series, the two colour models are going to be more attractive gameboys! :P

[bluesun08]

Don't panic! For HP49/50 there are also a lot of games, see:

http://www.hpcalc.org/hp49/games/

[From Hong Kong]

Yes! Colour screen may appeal to many potential users except me. In terms of features, the TI-84 series is good for students but not beyond. I don't think many stuents can use the colour screen constructively rather than for entertainment. If TI doesn't do much in the next ROM upgrade of the TI-84 series, the two models in this series should only be improved gameboys!

As a loyal HP user, I look forward to a colour graphing model from HP.

Edited: 23 Nov 2012, 7:01 a.m.

[bluesun08]

... of course with CAS, RPN and ENTER-Key.

[Garth Wilson]

When our kids were in high school, they said the only thing students in their math classes used the graphics on the required TI graphing calculators for was games.

[MacDonald Phillips]

I have the TI-NSpire CX CAS and for me the color graphing, 2 & 3D, is very good. I also substitute in high school math and science classes. The math and science teachers I've seen do not teach their student how to use or program their calculators. I am taking a class in vector calculus where there is a high school math teacher taking it for his continuing education for accreditation. He does not know how to program a calculator even though he has a TI calculator with CAS. In fact, he does not know anything about programming.

[hpnut]

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He does not know how to program a calculator even though he has a TI calculator with CAS. In fact, he does not know anything about programming.

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Heaven help that he knows how to teach ;-)

[Al]

Re color displays and the virtues or detriments thereof, what are us poor, unloved color blind/color ignorant individuals in my case, to do?