WP-32S in 2016?

[Didier Lachieze]

(01-04-2016 10:42 PM)walter b Wrote:  We offer a WP 34S and a WP 31S based on a platform whichs days are counted - but it's probably sufficient to cover the demand. We don't know yet whether a DM34L is possible at all (due to memory and unknown will of SM). Furthermore, just repeating the 34S on another HW isn't really breathtaking and will probably (my guess) not attract too many customers since the 34S is already there. A little progress would be better. Are solid keys instead of stick-on labels and a real dot-matrix display sufficient to make a WP/DM 34SII a success story?

In parallel, a WP/DM 32S sounds like a DM15L+, i.e. the niche looks even smaller. Main advantages compared to DM15L may be readable programs and alpha handling. Is that sufficient to make a project worthwile?

And reasoning for a WP 31S successor will follow the line explained for the WP 34S above.

Quite some basic unknowns so far. What do you (pl.) think?

d:-?

Here is what I think:

[+] The WP-34S is a wonderful calculator. I love it. But for a lot of people it's difficult to get one and to keep it up to date without the right cable. So a SwissMicro version with solid keys to replace the stick-on labels and with a built-in micro USB connector for software updates would be a good way to extend and expand the current WP-34S. I would for sure buy one.
[+] Having an improved display with more Alpha characters would be good.
[+] Ideally the IR LED for the printer should be built-in.
[-] I don't want to trade the 34S two lines display for a few soft keys, unless there is a clever mechanism to allow both as on the 42S.
[-] I'm not interested in the 31S and will not be neither in a 32S, I just want the full power of the 34S, nothing less.