NEW: HP 15C Collectors Edition

[Johnh]

With a week or so into this machine, I've realized it has a useful feature which has led to a way that I have started to use it:

So far as I can tell, it is one the few HP RPN calcs (other than Swiss-micros or HP Prime), that you can currently buy new and also load a good emulator for a phone. I'm finding Touch 15i on Android is a great way to explore programs and try things out, which can also be saved as memory dumps in as many versions as you want making it easy to recover from snafu's. Then when I have programs going well on the Android, I can key them cleanly into the real HP15c. I'm using an excel file to keep a record as I develop.

Phone-based emulators are much handier than PC based ones. (I wish there was a phone app for my HP35S.). Sometimes they are more useful than the real thing, such as in low light, or when one wants to seem like a normal adult spending hours fiddling on a phone, rather than a calculator nerd!

I'm still interested if anyone has an insight into power consumption / battery life expectancy on the HP15C CE.