by Tondoteottotote on May 20th, 2008

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Cellphones nowadays keep packing on new features for every design update. They only have basic calculators now. Why don’t cellphones have scientific and graphing calculators yet?

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by Rollie on May 21st, 2008
Who would use them? A few but probably not enough to make it feasible to produce them. Have to sell enough to make money!!
Most people wouldn't need them and more than that wouldn't know how to use them anyway and wouldn't have the incentive to learn.
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- (Basic) Calculators are generally included in the cellphones for free. If these regular calculators can be installed in them for free, so should graphing calculators as well.
  
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- Maybe, but again, who would use them? And, how many more cell phones would they sell.
  I took a statistics class in about 1990 and used a regular calculator and a long method of getting my answers rather than learning a scientific calculator because of the costs and the fact that I probably would not use this knowledge again.
  
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by Peetee on May 21st, 2008
'cos only a few of us want it. Most people would rather die than do a bit of maths. Unfortunately that means cell-phones with only primitive math functions.
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- I wouldn't mind having a graphing calculator on my cellphone at all! For the users who prefer simpler calculating, a cellphone can have 3 calculators- the basic, scientific, and graphic. Nice! (If enough memory space is available. That'll be no problem since memory space keeps growing every year.)
  
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- Memory isn't a problem. They just have to 'want to do it'. Mind you, with all the capabilities available on a phone now (eg web browsing, games), shouldn't it be possible for us to simply download a better calculator program and chuck it on our phone? Can we just write our own code in Visual BASIC or C++ and download it onto a phone? (I really don't like the idea of programming on a phone keyboard!) Hell, I don't care. Let me write it in assembly language. Why not? We have the technology right now. We just need the appropriate bits of information so we can make it happen. Why should we have to wait for someone else to do it? Especially since they don't seem to be in a hurry.
  
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