HP (NYSE:HPQ) today makes a strong push into the high school education market with the introduction of the HP 39g+ graphing calculator, a math and science tool that gives students a performance edge.
Launched here at the largest annual consumer technology show in the world, the HP 39g+ calculator gives teachers and students a powerful, competitively priced tool and adds an important component to HP's broad line of printers, PCs and other products targeted at the consumer electronics market.
The HP 39g+ brings to seven the number of new calculators HP has introduced in the span of a year.
With the launch of the 39g+, HP now has a broad line of 10 scientific, graphing and financial calculators designed to meet the needs of all calculator users," said Fred Valdez, general manager, calculators, Personal Systems Group, HP. "And there's more to come."
The HP 39g+, in its striking blue case, is the fourth in a powerful new line of graphing calculators from HP that includes the entry-level HP 9g and the recently launched HP 48gII (U.S.) and flagship HP 49g+.
At the U.S. suggested retail price of $991, the HP 39g+ has features that no other calculator in its class can match2.
"The HP 39g+ is the ultimate high school student calculator," said Valdez. "This calculator has a clear and high screen resolution with the highest memory of comparably priced high school calculators. The additional ability to use the convenient USB connection - cable and software included at no extra charge - to download or create your own public domain 'aplets'3 increases the usefulness of this calculator beyond anything available at this price."
The HP 39g+ graphing calculator stands apart with its large 131 x 64 pixel screen and convenient, industry-standard USB port4. With its onboard library of aplets - plus more that can be downloaded or created - the HP 39g+ puts amazing power in the hands of the world's future scientists, engineers and mathematicians. The USB port gives students and teachers the ability to save or download programs to a PC whenever required.
The HP 39g+ aplet library lets students explore different classes of mathematical operations such as functions, inference, parametric, polar, sequence and statistics. One powerful aplet is HP Solve, which makes it easy to find an unknown variable without having to re-enter an equation. You can even use the aplets as building blocks for larger applications. Two teaching aplets called the "Quad Explorer" and the "Trig Explorer" provide further investigation into the behavior of equations through the use of the calculator's graphics.
In addition to the USB port, the HP 39g+ can share aplets and applications with other HP 39g+ calculators wirelessly through its infrared (IrDA) port. The HP 39g+ has 200 kilobytes5 of user memory to store aplets and other programs.
The HP 39g+ is planned to be available worldwide in spring 2004. In the United States, online availability will be on www.hpshopping.com and HP's Small & Medium Business online store. It is also expected to be available at selected retailers throughout the United States, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
HP offers a comprehensive range of calculators designed for math and science students, engineers, scientists and financial and business consultants. More information about HP's entire range of calculators is available at www.hp.com/calculators. Also available on this Web site are step-by-step learning modules for HP's current range of calculators.
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