What would your ideal HP calc look like now?

[Han]

(03-27-2014 05:56 PM)walter b Wrote:  

(03-27-2014 04:34 PM)Han Wrote:  Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Take a good look at Charlemagne and tell me if you see much of a difference between that and a Pioneer (other than screen size). Alcuin was just a recolorization of Charlemagne. So in terms of looks (as per the thread topic, in a literal sense), all Pioneers, Charlemagnes, Alcuins look like they all belong to the same familiy.

Thanks - I learn something new here every once and a while. So perfectly pocketable calcs and impossibly pocketable calcs belong to one product family? O tempora ... #-(

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Emaphasis mine

Let's take a second look at what I originally wrote:

Quote:I don't know what it is (perhaps because my first calculator was an HP48G) but I just really love the look of the Pioneer series. So I'd like my calculator to have that type of outer look and the inside and screen to be as powerful and nice as the best smartphones of today.

I can see how this can be interpreted two ways:

1) That I mistakenly thought the HP48G is a Pioneer (it is not; I am also not suggesting that they are). My writing should have been more clear than it was.

or

2) Though my first calculator was NOT a Pioneer series, it very well looks like one. To see for yourself, compare:

Two Pioneers: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5012/55286...9460_z.jpg

with Charlemagne: http://www.hpmuseum.org/img/48s/48sxs.jpg

and with Alcuin: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co.../HP48G.jpg

They look very similar to me; it wouldn't surprise me if the manufacturing process for the cases used the same technology.

But if you really want to be pedantic, all three families fit inside my shirt pocket just fine (without their cases). I just don't carry them that way. Even with the soft case in the HP48 series, I remember carrying that calculator in my pants pockets in high school without issue -- of course I liked cargo pants so I'm sure that helps :-) But surely you don't mean to distinguish these families merely on whether they are "pocketable" ?