{"id":868,"date":"2008-07-19T21:11:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T07:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2008-07-19T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T07:22:45","slug":"iphone-3gipod-touch-scientific-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/19\/iphone-3gipod-touch-scientific-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 3G\/iPod touch Scientific Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh, here&#8217;s another example of Apple showing Microsoft &#8220;how to do it right.&#8221; The new iPhone 3G (and updated iPhone and iPod touch) got an enhancement to the original simple 4 function calculator. If you hold the iPhone\/iPod touch in portrait mode, you see the simple calculator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/iphone-calc-port.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"iphone-calc-port\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/iphone-calc-port.png 240w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/iphone-calc-port-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, if you turn it to landscape orientation, you see the new scientific calculator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/iphone-calc-land.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"iphone-calc-land\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/iphone-calc-land.png 360w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/iphone-calc-land-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the calculator on Windows Mobile Pocket PCs has not changed since 1996 (see below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/wimo6-calc.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"wimo6-calc\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/wimo6-calc.gif 320w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/wimo6-calc-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The freeware version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calculator.org\/download.html\">Calc98<\/a> looks ok in portrait mode (see below). However, it does not rescale for landscape view. Apparently, the for-fee version does this correctly. Microsoft should just buy the rights to Calc98 and use it to replace the outdated calculator in Windows Mobile.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/calc98-port.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"calc98-port\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/calc98-port.gif 240w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/calc98-port-225x300.gif 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/calc98-land.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"calc98-land\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/calc98-land.gif 320w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/calc98-land-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh, here&#8217;s another example of Apple showing Microsoft &#8220;how to do it right.&#8221; The new iPhone 3G (and updated iPhone and iPod touch) got an enhancement to the original simple 4 function calculator. If you hold the iPhone\/iPod touch in portrait mode, you see the simple calculator. However, if you turn it to landscape orientation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,16,10,8],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-ipod","category-pocket-pcphone-edition","category-windows-mobile","tag-calculator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-e0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}