What would you like to see in a future HP Prime II? (HP Prime², HP Prime 2X)

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(06-03-2023 10:08 AM)jonmoore Wrote:  I know the two major distributors of educational calculators here in the UK fairly well, Oxford Supplies and ScienceStudio. It's their opinion that the era of large graphical/scientific calculators, with or without CAS, is over. Look at the number of refreshes Casio has made to their mid-market education calculators since they launched the FX-CP400 ClassPad II back in 2013. It's had refreshes but mainly to add an examination/test mode to appease examination boards. The OS itself has hardly changed since Casio launched the ClassPad back in 2003. To make matters worse, all models are using an ancient ARM SoC, which was underpowered back in 2013.

I believe that the Classpad calculator is dead, at least it's what you deduce from amazon sales. It's not really a calculator because you need the stylus, and it's not a touchscreen like the Prime. You can not predict the future of graphing (CAS or non CAS, Casio or other brands) calculators from the Classpad.
My opinion is that the total number of high-end calculator sales (price>125$) will continue to decline, but at the same time, lower priced calculators will have more and more capabilities. As an illustration, I estimate that the Casio CAS most popular calculator is no more the Classpad but the FXCG50 with KhiCAS: I got a new record of 580 downloads of the English addin version last month (and 1840 hits on the documentation).
And it's not that clear that tablets or smartphones will replace calculators in the educational market, this was already predicted 10 years ago but dit not happen yet. Calculators keep some advantages: hardware keyboard, lower battery consumption, more robust, no social network distraction, it's easier to allow them during tests.