I finally got one! Unreleased Zero Calculator prototype teardown 

I like the battery. It's not permanently wired in, with a full pluggable connector, while being a bigger size so should get extra battery life. You might only replace such a battery once or twice during the lifetime of owning such a calculator, so I don't think the hassle of replacing it is a big deal over trade-offs to allow it to be a larger capacity. As long as it doesn't have crazy 'permanent' sticking solutions like most phones do (because they really do want you to buy a new phone rather than replace their battery).

"used to bad keys"? Nah, good calculator should be fast to type on for hours without tiring you out, so low force keys are good, even if they seem a little wobbly. What they need to do also is register presses consistently, which perhaps is a little more difficult to achieve with low force keys, but it's been done. Glossy keys are OK to me, i don't care. Glossy front casing is a no-no. My personal wish would be a brushed aluminium front and general 80s styling but i can definitely live without that :D

Hey Tiny! Nice to see that the Zero is alive and kicking. And you, too! :) Did you have a good summer?

The calculator has a lot going for it, the only thing I don't like is the round buttons unfortunately but saw your reply to someone where they may be changing it before the final build. 🙂

audio isn't mono, it's like either too much towards the left or towards the right

Good luck to these guys. NumWorks has been at it for years now with a calculator that’s priced less than the TI-84 CE and is superior in every way other than adoption. It’s a TOUGH market. Hope Zero’s idea of make a much less expensive TI-84 clone works out for them, but it sounds like TI is going to block that as much as possible.

I love to see some competition for TI's overpriced bricks! I'm sure there's more, though I'm not really in the calculator space so I wouldn't know. Great video!

Not a huge fan of the circle buttons at a first glance, but I was wondering how you liked them.

4:45 so they went from STM32 to Chinese GD32 clones. ugh

3:03 why you bend it like that. that hurts. ow

Thank you for this, can’t wait to get my hands on one of these!!!!!

i remember hearing about this, nice to see even more infos about it

I wish I had a Zero. I am going to reach out to Jesse for the ZGC4.

I hope CC27 prize is a zero calculator. Btw how close are you to finishing CEaShell

Awesome review - thank you and greetings from a German viewer

Nice teardown!

goes extremely hard

I didn't know they'd put out a new calculator. Never even heard of the Zero before. Only question I have is, can it play Doom?

3:27 I find this extremely annoying. Depending on who made that pack, it may get "spicy" if the battery management firmware doesn't optimize charging as the battery ages. Of course, all this could be avoided with a user replaceable battery pack or regular batteries. Can this be run from an external supply that circumvents the battery pack?

Haven't use a graph calcultator in 10 years. Still have my modded Graph 35+ with the 75 rom at arm's reach. Why is this new company still using super low specs? 8mb of ram? 240mhz single core arm ? Cmon just stick a pi zero 2 or something similar at this point. I even thought of basically having a pi pico-style compute module controller for the main cpu (for basic calculator tasks) and using a pi zero 2-style compute module as optionally powered a co-processing unit for computing very large chunks of data, and i bet it would not cost more than 80$ if mass produced.

Good video, though I don't get what the point of this calculator is. What does this offer over an HP Prime (not even the even more souped up G2 model)?

waiting for TLM to comment XD

I gotta get back into calcs man

For BTS 2024 they should be shipping to stores already.

You don't have to change the file extension to edit it.

Hey this is not relating to your video but i was downloading pokemon onto my TI 84 CE but everytime i open ti connect ce it gives to option to repair or remove and it wont stop giving it to me no matter how many times i repair and open.

Nice video! Consider paying more attention to the sound: it's unbalanced and clipping.

Just learned about this calculator watching this video and not so interested to google about it (also it looks simpler and less capable that the inspire but looks can be deceiving) what is its purpose i mean where in the food chain does this calculator fit and why ? Last but not least i believe calculators are a dying breed in their current state due to phones and whatnot but I would pony up some good money for high precision calculators which by it self is something most apps or phones cant offer not even close.... but for some reason no calculator manufactures except a "boutique" style one ( Swissmicro) but eve they are more like hp replica nostalgia market rather than high precision

What is a zero calculator

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First, i mean zero

Zero but there's ONE calculator inside? DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING

Meh it does look quite basic, I'd rather go with the numworks which has both python and an SDK

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whats going on with dudes voice

Your voice sounds like ai generated and the video is nice

Hard to follow with this weird narration