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Load a Photo Yes/No?
09-04-2014, 06:49 PM
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RE: Load a Photo Yes/No?
Well-deserved criticisms of the HP Prime, to be certain I have not read the entire PDF material for this unit, but just by using it for a day, disappointment is higher than expected:

1) Catalog does not contain ALL available commands (listed in ONE convenient place)
2) 'Grad' is stupidly missing for some reason?!?!?
3) conversion to/from mils is not included (angular measurement conversions????)
4) Constants appears to be short-changed and quite limited

found it very easy to accidently leave a menu or submenu,

touch screen is very sensitive to touch -- is there any way to control that sensitivity, or even limit areas subjected to touch (yes, he's serious)

counting number of keystrokes needed to achieve a given task, comparing with other calculators, gives concern

Had I been on development team, I certainly would have done things a little differently, and would have insisted on some "legacy functionality", and a nice complement of Units Conversions and Constants!

*** HP Prime, IMHO is clearly a WORK IN PROGRESS. ***

Will I return calculator, no, even with all of its incredible blatant shortcomings.

Nice try. As anyone can clearly see who has used it to date, it is clearly a work in progress, and still must provide proper "legacy" functionality, as well as keeping up with modern standards. Now, where did I put my Sliderule?

Would I recommend HP Prime to others? Not without explaining these short-comings, and why I personally feel this unit is lacking because of being left out. Average student (let alone teachers or instructors) in todays classroom would probably not care, not notice, these shortcomings.

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Load a Photo Yes/No? - Richard Wagner - 09-01-2014, 09:02 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - jebem - 09-01-2014, 10:11 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Joe Horn - 09-01-2014, 10:36 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Richard Wagner - 09-02-2014, 02:47 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Richard Wagner - 09-02-2014, 02:38 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Joe Horn - 09-02-2014, 03:25 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Tim Wessman - 09-02-2014, 01:13 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - walter b - 09-02-2014, 02:58 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Joe Horn - 09-02-2014, 03:16 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - debrouxl - 09-02-2014, 05:41 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Richard Wagner - 09-02-2014, 04:26 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Joe Horn - 09-02-2014, 04:51 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Richard Wagner - 09-02-2014, 06:39 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Joe Horn - 09-02-2014, 09:16 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - oldhpfan - 09-02-2014, 08:07 PM
Post Man Arriveths - Richard Wagner - 09-03-2014, 10:11 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Mark Hardman - 09-04-2014, 12:17 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Richard Wagner - 09-04-2014 06:49 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Tim Wessman - 09-04-2014, 07:17 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Richard Wagner - 09-04-2014, 08:56 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Tim Wessman - 09-05-2014, 04:10 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Richard Wagner - 09-05-2014, 09:19 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Joe Horn - 09-05-2014, 02:04 PM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - walter b - 09-05-2014, 10:22 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - eried - 09-05-2014, 12:04 AM
RE: Load a Photo Yes/No? - Richard Wagner - 09-05-2014, 08:37 PM



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