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Voyage 400 Leaked
Posted by Michael on 1 April 2003, 05:57 GMT

Update: Please note that this was a joke. Please do not contact Texas Instruments or any of their resellers asking about this product - it does not exist.


TI is developing a new calculator, the Voyage 400. Leaked specifications and photos from TI have been floating around since Saturday. It appears to follow the tacky case colors of the existing calculators, but what really matters is that it has a 256-color LCD! It also features a 66 MHz ARM processor (presumably with 68k emulation?), 16 MB of flash, and an IR port with a "teacher select" to disable for testing. The scheduled release date is in August. Unfortunately I don't think there is sound, but this definitely is a nerd's dream.

Update (Henrik): New information received from an anonymous source indicates that there is no sound output, but there is a link port that could possibly emulate sound output, like we have seen on other calcs. Further, there is an emulation layer so that Flash applications compiled for the Voyage 200 will be able to run unmodified. We will disclose further information as we get it.

Update (Michael): ph33r my 31337 9R@pHIC5 5kilL5!

Update: Again, please don't contact Texas Instruments regarding this non-existing calculator.

 


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Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
lord_nightrose Account Info
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Yeah, I think it's real. Kerm says he saw Voyage 200 above the LCD in the picture, but now that I've magnified it myself I can't pick it out... I can definitely see 'voyage' but the number is blurred.

     2 April 2003, 02:59 GMT


Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
scott_shortonideas Account Info
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when I zoomed in, I saw 400, but as far as the "april fools" above the minus sign, I can't make it out.

     2 April 2003, 05:08 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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Wouldn't that be the VAR-LINK label?

     2 April 2003, 05:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
Michael O'Brien  Account Info
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Yeah it is

     2 April 2003, 19:21 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
lord_nightrose Account Info
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What?? I never mentioned anything like that...

     2 April 2003, 17:23 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Someone else did.

     2 April 2003, 23:37 GMT

Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
RCTParRoThEaD_ Account Info
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haha goto the DS site.



Also, if this image were being hosted off of IT's site, then i'd believe this. But since it's in the extra folder, I think it's a crock of shiznat.

     2 April 2003, 03:55 GMT

Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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All images in our news articles are in the /extra/ directory. That just indicates they're not handled by our normal content-management system.

     2 April 2003, 09:22 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
BlackThunder  Account Info
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And why are you posting this AFTER we've already determined this to be an April Fool's joke?

     3 April 2003, 03:20 GMT


Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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They made it gray, lol :)

     2 April 2003, 23:39 GMT

Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
klaser javasin  Account Info

You could have faked the lcd better.

     2 April 2003, 05:20 GMT

Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
Beta

My math teacher recently mentioned news of a new TI calc with specs almost identical to this one - I thought he was kidding until I saw this post. Don't know where he heard it from, but he mentioned everything from the color screen to the huge memory to the IR link

I don't think this is a joke; if not, ticalc.org should have timed this better :)

Cheers to the first person with a "teacher select" hack!!! ;)

     2 April 2003, 06:55 GMT

Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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f00l ;-)

Teacher select sounds evil... hope they don't get some cr0p idea like that shaz.

     2 April 2003, 23:40 GMT


Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
Beta

Scratch that...

I am now wondering what the hell my teacher was talking about, this is an odd coincidence

     3 April 2003, 04:10 GMT

Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
Jack Lau  Account Info
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I told you it could be an April Fool!

Anyway a cooler "calculator" that you could have is a laptop PC running Windows 2000 or XP Pro with Texas Intruments Derive 5 software and even Matlab!

Derive 5 is a maths package just like what you get with the TI-89 and TI-92 series.

     2 April 2003, 19:12 GMT


Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
Arno Kret  Account Info

Put a nice internet connection on it too, i'd really like to surf during math...

     2 April 2003, 19:27 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
Jack Lau  Account Info
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Good idea!!! Could connect it to a third generation mobile network!!!

     3 April 2003, 21:18 GMT

Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
q x  Account Info

'twould be nice to have something like this, and for TI to come out w/ a color screen calc.!



-Ooh-well.

     2 April 2003, 23:23 GMT

Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
chemoautotroph Account Info
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>>ph33r my 31337 9R@pHIC5 5kilL5!
That fake graphic was horrible, it was the first giveaway that this was fake news, even before I realized it was April 1.

     4 April 2003, 14:41 GMT

Something that would have made it much more credible...
Drantin  Account Info

...would have been a background that appeared to be on some alpha testers desk...

     4 April 2003, 16:36 GMT

Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
taydawg2003

it would be nice to have a calculator like that.
if this was real it would probably cost $350.
It needs infrared link and sound built in, with the addition to recieve from every model of ti and other calculators as well...

...and it needs to be able to make drinks!

     5 April 2003, 02:24 GMT

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