So HP calculators have been … well not frequent. And from the perspective of a casual calculator user HP might as well not exist. If you wanna buy a new useful scientific calculator it’s TI or Casio and maybe sharp. However with the recent announcement that there would be a collectors edition re-release of the HP 15c it looks like the new owners of the HP calculator brand do care! Well at least a bit. So what do you think they will do next? Do you believe HP still has a great calculator in them? What would be your dream HP calculator?
The 15C reissue was pretty easy to make, considering they already had the tooling from the 12C. Anything beyond that is going to need new tooling, which massively increases costs.
That being said, I have hopes. HP calculators was just spun off into a new business, and they probably want something to sell. Maybe a new RPN model based on the hardware of the 35s?
My ideal would be an update to the 50g that fixes the bugs and weirdness, in a nice case reminiscent of the 48GX. I know they won’t do it, but that doesn’t change what I want. Maybe SwissMicros might make something along those lines someday?