Possible death of calculators in education?

[pier4r]

(05-17-2017 01:39 PM)EugeneNine Wrote:  Droid 48 works fine on my 5" phone, sure the 'buttons' don't feel the same as the real thing but people anymore are used to a touchscreen so they don't care.

I can also run apps such as maxima or gforth no need to buy anything special.

Well surely a lot of apps run, because today smartphones are super powerful, but for the precision experience (especially when I don't want to correct myself every two seconds), there are differences. A keyboard, for many, will be always better than a touchscreen interface unless there will be a tacticle feedback.

I mean, if it would not be the case, the need for auto correct algorithms would not be there. Unless a calculator starts to have auto correct (hard), of course one can use it on a smartphone but a physical HID like the keypad with buttons will be better for long usage.

Sure, if one use the tool once in a while, no problem. Or if the tool is unique, like I cannot have a physical Free42 without spending the equivalent of several hp 50g.