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(06-19-2014 09:11 PM)Tugdual Wrote:  

(06-19-2014 08:09 PM)MathMan Wrote:  Completely agree.. As I said previously, I always seem to go back to my TI because I prefer using a physical keyboard

True for normal calculations but not for the geometgry app and regarding CAS you will want a plain 101 keyboard anyway. With the Prime keyboard you can expect:
- press 4 times average the Shift and Alpha keys before you find and lock the desired case.
- eyes bleeding with light orange and blue colors especially when light is low

Yep. Dedicated keys. Primary reason that I still bother with calcs...

Oh, BTW there's also Xcas pad for android as well, which is based on giac...

maxima on android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.yhonda

xcas pad(hasn't been update in several months)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...droid_xcas

...and octave...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...com.octave

(for octave that is the base, you need to add other "apps" to get the complete experience... ALL are free...)

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You know from one dump of an earlier firmware that I saw with the file tree exploded, it looks like the prime is probable running wince(and I do) 6.0. If true why they picked such a craptacular embedded OS over Android anyways or even rolling their own mini linux distro, I don't know other than it's probably more readily lockdownable and since noone cared about it noone bothered to hack it except maybe some Chinese(for a while they used it in everything from GPS units to early tablets(which mostly also had an Android/maybe linux firmware as well).

So, no idea if it's possible to port native apps to the things. It would be mostly trivially easy IF they had used droid. Worst case would be unlocking the bootloader and rolling our own version ala cyanogenmod. (hoping for my oneplus one invite...)
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