Funny, when I saw the original TI-84 Pocket.fr (with monochrome screen) I thought about how the glass covering the screen would have been nice for a color screen. Turns out TI probably had that in mind already!

Yeah, the Pocket SEs do look bland compared to the Pocket.fr (which is the best design for any graphing calculator in my opinion).

But honestly I think with the TI-84 C Pocket SE TI is finally bringing calculator innovation where it should have been in terms of size/specs (and price too, if they want to compete directly against the PRIZM). As opposed to a model that's basically stayed the same and sold for the same price for the past twenty years

That's the thing—it's pretty clear this is supposed to compete directly against the PRIZM, so if the want to have a shot they'd have to keep the price similar to that of the PRIZM or lower. Otherwise everyone would still just go for the plain 83P or 84P.

You realize the poster's name is "Aietraullu", meaning "I troll you" ?
Also, photoshopping an image + taking a photo of it is a quite nice way to hide some imperfections

lulz Cemetech newsed about it

Watch out guys, we've got a master troll over here.

Well played.

Although this was a hoax, Mic on TI-BANK mentions in a comment that he contacted TI-Cares and they said that while they can't divulge any info yet, they had a project about that calculator.

Although TI-Cares aren't always reliable, I'm seriously thinking that next school year, shortly after the bigger model is out, there will be a smaller color model in France.

Well personally I didn't mind the prank as much, although I felt kinda embarrassed (and also for the other sites) who newsed about it, since if that made Slashdot or something, that would make us and other calc sites look bad, and the worst part being that in the future, we would have even fewer chances to see TI-related stuff on big blogs like Engadget and stuff where a popular calc fan site is cited.

Plus I doubt someone like Adriweb would have let the prank run for too long if it got more attention, since he knows very well it might tarnish his reputation. Also, after the OSLaunche April Fools joke him or Critor did a while ago, I'm thinking that the C Pocket SE prank too might have been made up from some real stuff. In OSLauncher's case, the video posted of it was fake and made with video editing softwares, but there was an actual OSLauncher being developed for real behind the scenes: Just not as far into progress as seen in the video. And TI-BANK v1 had other April Fools pranks that turned real less than a year later.

I agree that with such prank, however, it will make people take others (especially newer members) less seriously when they announce new calcs or stuff (plus it might accidentally lead newbies or trolls to join the bandwagon and flood sites with fake new calc pics. It would be nice if there was some topic showing fake calc pics/designs, though, showing how you wished future calcs looked like.

Also regardless of the TI-Cares France comment and some NDA-restricted comments that this calc might be partially real in a not-so-distant future, I seriously hope the design is fake. I really don't like it lol >.<

In OSLauncher's case, the video posted of it was fake and made with video editing softwares, but there was an actual OSLauncher being developed for real behind the scenes: Just not as far into progress as seen in the video.

Actually, OSLauncher was developed entirely after the video.