Darn, I just placed a bid on ebay for a Voyage 200.

Happy APRIL f00l's day!

yeah, that's what I thought.

yes, i agree it is an april fools joke, but why two, is there some contest between the staff, who has tbe best april fools joke. I think that 1 is good, 2 is overkill, and i sure hope that i dont need to comment about 3.

Though i do think the fact that someone would believe it is funny.

with 2 jokes this one becomes more belivable.

Yeah... that's probably also why they said the one was fake so quickly.

I was had for about 25 minutes. Figured it out in math class when trying to decide whether to get one (attempting to estimate cost).

I thought it was fake immediately because I was expected a fake news item to come up for 4/1, and that was the first article I saw (I didn't see the thong one until a few minutes ago, lol). They said it was fake a little too fast... the slower people might have fallen for it :) (Like me last year, and the year before that)

Well, now it's 00:32 GMT and it's still blue... I'm going to go blue in the face if it's true. (And, what a pity, my parents probably won't let me post a picture of my blue face to my site ;) )

The post wasn't until 4:57 GMT...bout a half hour left...

oops...typo..._3_:57 GMT...and it's past that now but still blue...

Uh-huh... I was on here when 00:00 GMT hit and I thought it was really odd when it didn't turn red... but I guess they have to activate that themselves.

that image looks really fake. this is an april fools joke for sure. i'd bet a Magnus thong on it.

no red border on the news article!

Well duh. They don't put the red border on it right away, only around noon GMT or something.

haha, yeah, they did have me convinved for a second though.

lol, I like it. It might be but it's not outlined in red like fake news is. It still might be, what do I know?

wait 24 hours.

That's usually what it is... but that other one went really quickly... I never saw it in its "blue stage"

Yup, it's in the red stage

wait... It's april 1st on GMT right now, isn't it? I'm an idiot!

Actually, I bet the merchandise one is fake also, I mean come on, a ticalc.org thong with magnus on it. I bet this was already mentioned somewhere but I just thought of it. Although, a color calculator would be nice, fake or not.

but MV would look SSSSSSSUPER in one of those thongs!

haha, are you gonna provide any pictures, MV? ^_^

I can see you now playing the bagpipes with a t-shirt of MV with his jester hat...

yeah, you could use the calculator to display pictures of people in thongs...or whatever...

OMG, wouldn't that be funny if TI really did make this?

I just searched ti's web site. No voyage 400 found in 500 results. By what means did this leak out???

E-mail. It hasn't been "officially announced" yet.

I made a point to visit the site on time this year, yay. TI is planning to release the Voyage 400, representing the first in a series of major technology upgrades for their graphing calculators. So, what else does this email say? ;)

I mailed TI and tehy told me about Voyage 200 Silver Edition.
Becuase of the QWERTY keyboard, Voyage 200 is not approved in schools and the sales are not satisfying. For this reason, besides Voyage 400, TI decided to release Voyage 200 Silver Edition, which has the same case with the 83 Plus Silver Edition and it may be used in schools more widespread.

Check the webpage link above my name for its image.

You don't really expect us to believe that, do you? :)

When I first made this joke on ti-programmers.com some months ago, some people believed it.

Yea, but not the second time around, lol

LOL

When I saw that, I was like "Oh, come on!"

It looks exactly like a TI-83+SE

But if it did exist, we would have a powerful calc usable on the SAT and other tests.

He could make it look more convincing if he made the frame dimentions less similar to a TI-83+ SE and if he modified the button images. Even I (the most gullible sap on this site, who fell for both the thong idea and the V400) could see through that fake picture.

Well, you just weren't ready for the pranks :) Next year 'round, you'll probably be expecting them. I'm paranoid around April Fool's Day... I don't trust anyone because I keep thinking that they're going to try to trick me into looking stupid or something :D

Yeah, it's called the TI-89

;)

Could you please post the email sometime soon? (If it's real, that is, the timestamp is a bit suspicious.)

I already know it's fake... but that excuse was kind of dumb... why would TI e-mail us and not post any information on their OWN site?

Magnify the image. The first bar is raised to the mark labeled 2, but the number above it is a 5. None of the numbers above the bars correspond to what the marks say.

Those "numbers" seem to be dollar signs instead.

I didnt fall for it. I knew this would happen today.

So did I... I was waiting for this for a long time. I was determined not to fall for it ;)

The picture does look fake. Plus, a calculator with a color scren would waste the battery fast. So it must be a april fools joke.

It takes one 5600 mAh Lithium Ion batter. Changer comes with the calculator.

hey!! a 5600 MAh battery at a reasonable voltage for this machine would not only be very LARGE but very HEAVY! One AA is about 2850 in alkaline, and LI-Ion is around maybe 2000 MAH per AA, and four of those are 2000 MAh at 6 volts, and then that would already weigh quite a bit! But 5600 MAH battery at 6 volts would weigh almost as much as 11-12 Alkaline AA's! That's too much for my pocket!

you, must have a big friggin pocket, cuz the V200 is like a 1/2 sized laptop.

BIG cargo pants ;)

Lithium Ion batteries are considerably lighter than lead acid batteries which you are probably thinking about. A lot of point-n-shoot digital cameras use Li Ion batteries and they have always had a very high capacity.

It's not that bad, though. I've seen worse...

Remember last year, just about every site had an april fool's joke? I'm gonna go check around. Maybe google has one like that pidgeon poop one again. That was funny, but it was OBVIOSLY fake. Pidgeon's poop do not convert to pixels.