HP Prime Graphing Calculator Can Run Apps, Has A Touchscreen Display

HP Prime Graphing Calculator Can Run Apps, Has A Touchscreen Display

In this modern day and age of smartphones most people don’t carry a standalone graphing calculator. Anything a calculator can do, you smartphone can do as well, all thanks to the plethora of calculator apps that are available for major platforms. If you absolutely must possess a calculator that doesn’t live inside your smartphone, check out the HP Prime. It has a multi-touch display and can run a host of apps.

Today HP posted a promotional video of The Prime standalone graphing calculator on YouTube, it is going to be released this Fall. The calculator touts a 3.5 inch full color touchscreen display, full hardware keys that one would expect on a sophisticated calculator and the ability to run apps. The design looks a lot like that of Porsche designed P’9981 BlackBerry smartphone, but just to be clear, this calculator does not have phone or email features. The HP Prime will ship with a number of apps preloaded, though the app library can reportedly be expanded by sideloading. They’ve not revealed any pricing or availability information as yet. Looks good, doesn’t it?

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Casio’s touchscreen graphing calculator arrives in 2013, makes the TI-84+ look dated

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Everything’s a battleground these days, isn’t it? Even the makers of humble graphing calculators can’t resist a scrap. Casio is now throwing down the gauntlet, announcing that its fx-CP400 will arrive shortly after rival TI’s color-screened TI-84+. Casio’s offering comes with a 4.8-inch, 320 x 528, stylus-driven display and can switch from vertical to horizontal modes at the touch of a button. If you’re planning on some illicit classroom movie-watching, however, then you should know it only has around 30MB of storage — but hey, that might be good enough for one thing.

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