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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on March 31, 2011, 05:49:43 pm

Title: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 31, 2011, 05:49:43 pm
Should Elfprince13 and KermMartian move to France, this kind of scene (http://cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=132536#132536) should be possible with a TI-Nspire CX too.

Source: TI-Planet news (http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1027)

No word yet if in other countries we will also get the TI-Nspire CX cover for free with the calculator, nor if the France-only TI-84 Pocket.Fr will have one included.

UPDATE: After emailing Texas Instruments, they responded by telling me that they have not yet made the decision over whether the slide case will be included with Nspire CX calcs sold in the United States.  Likewise, they stated that they would forward my suggestion to the product team.  Hopefully, TI will make the right call and include the slide case with this calc! :)
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: yunhua98 on March 31, 2011, 05:52:46 pm
wow, france does get all the good stuff, we need more competitors for TI here in the US too.  :P
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: critor on March 31, 2011, 05:57:02 pm
wow, france does get all the good stuff, we need more competitors for TI here in the US too.  :P

Oh no...

We don't have the TI-Robot, the TI-Keyboard, or the TI-73.

And accessories aren't sold in shops. (TI-Graph Link USB, TI-Nspire rechargeable battery, color slide case, color keyboard for the TI-84+SE...)
We have to order them online from TI importation shops, and that's quite expensive.
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 31, 2011, 05:59:52 pm
Yeah it seems like instead of releasing the 73 in France, TI decided to just re-release the 83 then a few years later the 76.Fr.

By the way did the 76 have MathPrint like the 73?
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: critor on March 31, 2011, 06:01:56 pm
By the way did the 76 have MathPrint like the 73?

No. Nothing more than a basic TI-83 OS.
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 31, 2011, 06:02:46 pm
Ah ok. I was wondering since it does actually have the Text typing section like the TI-73 had the last time I tried a ROM in WabbitEmu. ???

(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3946.0;attach=2628;image)
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: fb39ca4 on March 31, 2011, 06:35:20 pm
O.o
Two days not on omni seems like a long time now ...
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 31, 2011, 06:52:56 pm
What do you mean? ???
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: critor on March 31, 2011, 07:02:13 pm
That many things happen during 2 days on Omni :P

You're totally lost when you come back ;)
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 31, 2011, 07:48:45 pm
Oh ok I guess maybe he means the large amount of news (and posts) lately.

Actually I only check like 20 topics per day so now I have like 5000 unread posts worth of read. O.O
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: fb39ca4 on March 31, 2011, 07:52:42 pm
Actually, I just realized it was four days.
DJ, the link to TI-Bank goes to the thread on Cemetech.
If the cx is released in france, how come there is no 3.0 os on the french website? What would people do if they deleted/corrupted their os by mistake?
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: apcalc on March 31, 2011, 07:54:19 pm
I don't think it is released in France yet, TI-France just made the decision to include the slidecase when it is released.
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 31, 2011, 07:57:21 pm
Actually, I just realized it was four days.
DJ, the link to TI-Bank goes to the thread on Cemetech.
If the cx is released in france, how come there is no 3.0 os on the french website? What would people do if they deleted/corrupted their os by mistake?

Woops, fixed link. X.x
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: Freyaday on March 31, 2011, 08:37:35 pm
Aaargh! Why does nothing good get released in the US! j/k
But seriously, Aaargh!
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: Dingus on March 31, 2011, 09:09:11 pm
When I went to order a cx from Underwood distributing I was told that the slide cover is a separate item and costs $5 extra which to my way of thinking is pretty steep for a five cent piece of plastic so I cancelled my order. 
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: Darl181 on March 31, 2011, 09:15:21 pm
Wow, you know you're dealing with TI if a slide case is big news :P
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: fb39ca4 on March 31, 2011, 09:23:01 pm
Wow, you know you're dealing with TI if a slide case is big news :P
No kidding.
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 01, 2011, 07:32:55 pm
Actually, the news might even make people e-mail them suggesting to include the slidecase with the calculator. :P
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 01, 2011, 08:54:08 pm
We should. If we email them enough, maybe TI North America will do the same.

The Nspire CX has such a beautiful screen. It needs to be protected :-|
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: Darl181 on April 02, 2011, 02:32:23 am
Quote from: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDetail/us_nspire_cx.html?bid=5 (near the bottom under "in the package")
Slide Case or TI-Nspire Screen Cling (depending on the configuration purchased)
So the option seems to be either protect just the screen or protect the whole thing.

I can't help but wonder what TI expects to achieve by this...more people seeing the logo or something?
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: willrandship on April 02, 2011, 02:40:50 am
Maybe one's cheaper? size can also be a factor.

Edit:
Quote
We don't have the TI-Robot, the TI-Keyboard, or the TI-73.

And accessories aren't sold in shops. (TI-Graph Link USB, TI-Nspire rechargeable battery, color slide case, color keyboard for the TI-84+SE...)
We have to order them online from TI importation shops, and that's quite expensive.
I didn't see a single one of those available from stores in the US either, at least not where I live. They have 83+, 84+ and 84+SE, along with 89Ts. Not much else, unless you go online, and the stores do not have accessories.
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: Darl181 on April 02, 2011, 02:49:38 am
Size difference...I'm wonder how big the screen protector is now :P

I've seen the TI-Keyboard for sale in a college bookstore...that was it other than the normal selection of calcs.
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2011, 03:09:05 am
Wow I didn't see the screen protector thing. Personally I would rather get a slidecase so I dont accidentally press keys I shouldn't while putting the calc somewhere or something. On my 83+ once I accidentally turned the calc ON and then hit enter without knowing because the slidecase wasn't inserted properly and it launched a basic program which ran during hours, draining my batteries.
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: ruler501 on April 02, 2011, 03:10:27 am
I'm going to need a slide case.
Where should we email TI to try to get them to include it in North America
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: fb39ca4 on April 02, 2011, 03:14:09 pm
Maybe one's cheaper? size can also be a factor.

Edit:
Quote
We don't have the TI-Robot, the TI-Keyboard, or the TI-73.

And accessories aren't sold in shops. (TI-Graph Link USB, TI-Nspire rechargeable battery, color slide case, color keyboard for the TI-84+SE...)
We have to order them online from TI importation shops, and that's quite expensive.
I didn't see a single one of those available from stores in the US either, at least not where I live. They have 83+, 84+ and 84+SE, along with 89Ts. Not much else, unless you go online, and the stores do not have accessories.
What is a TI-Robot?
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: willrandship on April 02, 2011, 03:52:53 pm
It's a third party thing that puts a few basic hooks in to control a small robot.

http://www.smallrobot.com/scimath.html
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 03, 2011, 02:35:42 am
Wow that seems cool, I don't remember seeing that one before. I only saw the robots by Critor, the one by Timendus and I think Silver Shadow was planning one a while ago.
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: willrandship on April 03, 2011, 02:37:37 am
And it doesn't count towards TI loving the English-Speaking, since it was made by someone else. :P
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 03, 2011, 02:39:24 am
I'm confused at what you mean. Could you elaborate? ???
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: ruler501 on April 12, 2011, 09:01:33 am
Could someone please tell me who I should email to get the TI-Nspire CX with slide case in the US?
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 12, 2011, 06:51:36 pm
Could someone please tell me who I should email to get the TI-Nspire CX with slide case in the US?


We should probably coordinate it to get the effect...
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: ruler501 on April 12, 2011, 06:52:29 pm
OK so we still need to decide on who to send it to.
I wonder how many people would want to help out?
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 12, 2011, 06:52:56 pm
What do we need to do to get the slide case?
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 12, 2011, 06:56:08 pm
What do we need to do to get the slide case?

Pay extra, for now :P
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 12, 2011, 06:56:55 pm
Right :banghead:
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: ruler501 on April 12, 2011, 07:04:02 pm
start emails to TI. we just need to coordinate it to make it work
Title: Re: CX officially delivered with slide-case in France
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 12, 2011, 07:05:51 pm
start emails to TI. we just need to coordinate it to make it work
But what do you say? "Bawww I wants slide case" probably isn't gunna work due to the fact that they will save money by selling them separately.