Like, if you set the region lock to fr, when you install a new OS, is French enabled by default instead of English?

Yes.

Not exactly, as you can use all 15-16 languages if your calculator isn't flashed with the region code 'zh_CN'.

You can set the 'zh_CN' code on your TI-Nspire CX if you want to install the english-chinese dictionnary.

And you can remove the 'zh_CN' code on your TI-Nspire CX-C or TI-Nspire CM-C if you want to be able to use all 15-16 included languages.


For now that's all as far as I know.

But for exemple, the 3.3 OS with a 16th language (arab) which still hasn't leaked to the Internet might be installable only on TI-Nspire with the arab region code.

Correction: Built in images are actually 133x88, not 160x120

I was talking about builtin background images.
Not builtin picture images.

Like DVDs, the TI-Nspire are using region codes.

The region code takes the form of a 2-5 characters language code (ISO 639 format) flashed in the NAND first pages ('manuf' zone, for manufacturer).
This code identifies the default calculator language and by extension its region.
For example, TI-Nspire CX-C calculators sold in China are flashed with the 'zh_CN' (simplified chinese) code, which lets the OS identify them correctly.



So everything is allready ready for a TI-Nspire CX.fr maybe someday
The current TI-Nspire OSes are supporting 16 different language codes and so 16 zones:

• ar: arab (TI-Nspire 3.3 systems only)
  
• da: danish
  
• de: german
  
• en: english (international)
  
• en_GB: english (United Kingdom)
  
• es: spanish
  
• fi: finnish
  
• fr: french
  
• it: italian
  
• nl: dutch
  
• nl_BE: flemish
  
• no: norwegian
  
• pt: portuguese
  
• sv: swedish
  
• zh_CN: simplified chinese (China)
  
• zh_TW: traditional chinesel (Taïwan)

Region codes are a digital rights management technique designed to allow to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region.
For example, Texas Instruments a released a chinese-english dictionnary which only installs on TI-Nspire CX-C.
But this can also be used the other way, removing some features for some regions. For example TI-Nspire CX-C and CM-C only let you select 4 of the 16 supported languages: both chinese languages and both english languages.



Today, you become able to modify/remove your TI-Nspire region code thanks to the latest version of nsNandMgr, the TI-Nspire NAND utility, now updated with new features and TI-Nspire CM support.
You can unlock the region code of your TI-Nspire CX-C, allowing you to use all 16 supported languages.
Same thing is possible with the TI-Nspire CM-C, resulting into a supported but unreleased model - a TI-Nspire CM!

The other way, you can mod your TI-Nspire CX into a TI-Nspire CX-C, allowing you to install the english-chinese dictionnary.

As far as I know it's useless, but the same thing is possible with TI-Nspire ClickPad/TouchPad and you can mod your TI-Nspire CX into a TI-Nspire CX.fr or an arab TI-Nspire CX too, if those possible models are someday realeased with specific features.



Source & download: http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12618&lang=en

We were planning to post on Omnimaga as soon as the news and rules will have been translated to english

Thank you DJ_O.

I've translated the news to english this morning:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12512&lang=en


The TI-84 Plus was allready discontinued in France for back to school 2012:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10408

The now more expensive and inferior TI-84 Pocket.fr seems to have disappeared from online stores.
So it might be discontinued in France for back to school 2013.

nLaunch is an alternative OS launcher alternative TI-Nspire, which is injected in the boot2 3.1.0.16.

It bypasses all protections and install:

• development OS
• old OS with a version number less than the minimum installable OS version
• modified OS
• third party OS like Linux
• CAS OS on the non-CAS TI-Nspire and non-CAS OS on the TI-Nspire CAS

This last point has recently been a problem for Portuguese exams prohibiting the use of a CAS engine.

As a consequence, we were not surprised to discover in a previous news a new 3.2.4.1237 OS on the latest manufactured TI-Nspire CX calculators.
Indeed this OS:

• updates the boot2 to a 3.2.4.7 version which fixes the flaw used by Nlaunch
• increases the minimum installabl OS version to 3.2.4.1200, thus preventing any return to an Ndlessable OS, which would have allowed you to reflash the Boot2

In an official document, Texas Instruments has communicated with Portuguese teachers:

This paper discusses several points:

• it explains what Nlaunch is
• it explains how to check if a TI-Nspire uses the CAS engine or not thanks to the model name displayed on the 'about' screen accessible via
  
  
• it explains how to uninstall Nlaunch, by sending two successive TI-Nspire OS
• it says that since December 2012, OS 3.2.4 has fixed the problem - which is great as Nlaunch was on released only on January 1st, 2013! Did TI anticipate the problem? :O
  
• it announces OS 3.6 but not for this summer summer anymore: for October 2013
• it mentions a new feature of OS 3.6 which will help to detect cheaters more easily on exams where the use of the CAS engine is prohibited, as this information is now available directly on the home screen!

This goes far beyond the simple detection Nlaunch because there it will also detect adepts of the "case switching" who put the TI-Nspire CAS hardware in the TI-Nspire non-CAS case!




Source:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12484&lang=en

Link:
http://www.ti-education-news.com/media_db/upload/1371222887_1093.pdf