This calc certainly is interesting... I wonder how different it will be from the normal Nspire, especially when it comes to programming.

Lets hope it has the same program language as the 68k calcs. :P

Actually, Nspire BASIC is very close to BASIC on 68k calcs, with the exception of the fact the the Nspire is missing some of the commands, most notably Dialog Boxes. Nspire BASIC is much closer to 68k BASIC than z80 BASIC. Likewise, the Nspire is like 68k because they both can be programed in C as well as in ASM.

Thats very interesting to know.
Maybe I'll ever buy a ti-nspire(for those reasons.)

On the OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE:

Texas Instruments (TI) Calculators Good morning, TI fans. Make sure to check out http://education.ti.com/tinspire at noon tomorrow for special product announcements from TI. If you're a teacher who's attending our annual Teachers Teaching with Technology conference, make sure to attend the opening session - you're in for a treat!

"you're in for a treat!" Now that you TI have set up my expectations, you need to understand that continueing to block efforts to program popular games on your calculators is definitely NOT a treat! So knock it off and announce an sdk for your nspires or don't give me that "treat" bull shit. I was ready for a treat when you announced the first nspire but it turned out to have very limited programing, was big as an aircraft carrier, lacked significant new math capability, had a hard to read screen, and had tiny closely spaced buttons that can contribute to input errors. So if you TI are going to give us a treat, make sure you are not offering me another screwing this time. Yeh I was born, but not last night in the dark!

OS 3.0 release notes above.

File pulled?

Actually more like ticalc.org link lenght limit

http://education.ti.com/sites/US/ downloads/pdf/ TI-Nspire%203%200%20Release%20Notes.pdf

Wow, that is pretty epic, but now mention of the wifi capabilities... completing the square seems cool... since the old Nspires don't have color screens (with back-lights) what are they going to do? Just add another os that was made specifically for the old and new Nspires? I think the new keypads are essentially the same thing as the V2.0 keypads. I like that they finally added exact value calculation support. And you can finally export data to HTML. That is awesome. (and a feature that should've existed in the original os) All good features should've existed in earlier versions.

Big announcement made at the Teachers Teaching with Technology conference... pre-production models in many of the sessions. Color is nice, CAS version makes it feel like an 89 practically. On sale in April, Under $130 since there's no interchangeable keyboard. They are nice... Nspire here to stay it seems. No batteries (rechargable only).

Programming features? Please tell me they un-crippled its programmability.

I wonder if one could make Google voice work with this.....

Alright time to sell my Nspire touch!!!!!

I'm hearing from people that have seen the napire CX that the screen is totally awesome with bright, clear, crisp colors.

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if it was as good or better as the Prizm. However I am worried that they might get rid of TI-84+ emulation and still not bother adding decent programming capabilities.

Ya know, the most recent cell phones would not be very successful without their third party apps, so why is Ti so solidly against them? TI's thinking in that regard is just plain ignorant.

Indeed, their excuse is that the calc is intended for maths, but what if a student wanted his program to look more interactive by using a getkey function and putting some graphics in his program?

Ask TI and tell us if they reply and what they say. In my mind they just want to keep 3rd party programs off the nspire series in an effort to pander to the teachers who hate games, but there is more to programing than games and they are making life difficult for everyone "including teachers." Its just ignorance, just like the testing people prohibiting calc's with standard qwerty keyboards.

Actually somebody asked TI-Belgium about getkey and he got the following response: http://omniurl.tk/6767

However, coming from TI-Cares, we have to take this with a grain of salt because their responses were not always accurate, but this doesn't sound too good.

I guess the future of getkey addition is not in the TI community's hands (read: xLIB/Celtic III/Doors CS7 Basic Libs conversion to the TI-Nspire)

The thing is, TI is probably so stupid, that they probably forgot to block Ndless with OS version 3.0.

You may be correct. They have certainly made some mistakes. Prehaps the biggest one is clinging to an all or nothing strategy where improvements are made for high school math teachers and everyone elses needs get ignored. Of course that has brought them a lot of heat from the many people who are not in that small category, so maybe they have come to their senses and will ignore Ndless as a way of providing third party programers with something of value for a change. We shall see.