Hehe, finally something that is not an april fools joke

It still could be. TI has never been the most speedy of organizations.

It's not. I direct you to the European Patent Office (see link)

Yet another illegally approved software patent. :-( The EPA is abusing its power again. :-(

Oops, EPO, not EPA. ;-)

Why's it illegally approved?

Because the current EU patent directive pretty clearly states that software patents aren't allowed. The directive which would have changed that was thankfully voted down by the European Parliament.

Oh, so the patent includes the software...evil...

The claims include lots of stuff which is obviously done in software.

I asked 1800-TICARES, and they told me that although they can not tell me many details about it... it is going to be released this fall! I hope they are right!

I CANT WAIT THAT LONG!!!

Actually, when I first saw this I thought "oh, it's another April Fool's joke". Then I realized it wasn't April 1st...

Does anyone know for sure how much this calc will cost?

*Reaches into wallet*

I've seen it at this URL for 179,95€.
There is also a picture of it!

Two USB ports? They say there will be one calc to calc cable (like the 83's) and one mini-USB port for connections with a computer.
Those mockups really look bad, but I would like to know how many pixels this TI will have.
And who is Joey Gannon?

That's way too philosophical of a question for me this early in the morning. Who am I, really?

You are a very dense gathering of quarks moving through space-time.

Actually he would be mostly empty space and so not very dense. Also, I would have said a bunch of strings but quarks work too.

You all forgot the leptons. He better be around 1/3-1/2 leptons (by number, not mass), or he would explode! :)

>> Who is Joey Gannon?

He's the eccentric uncle of the ticalc.org family. You know, the one your grandmother denies having and your mom doesn't want you to associate with, but he's too much fun to ignore. He's the relative who spent five hours "teaching you how to use the new calculator he gave you", but was really telling you how to make explosives and fuse so you could have a little bit more fun whilst eradicating fire ants (explosives being more interesting than poison). He also serves an important purpose, viz. bringing the fireworks to the 4th of July (replace with major local national holiday) celebration. We love Joey.

judging by the screenshot, the resolution doesnt seem any better than an 89/92

"Please keep in mind that the image to the right is one of TI's mockups which is drawn in Photoshop (or photo editor of their choice). It is not an actual image."

If it were a screenshot (which it isn't), the resolution would look a *lot* higher to me.

oh yea...forgot it wasn't an accual screenshot.

If there are any accual screenshots availible, send me the link.
I already saw the animation on the German TI website, though