HP's famous 12c financial calculator emulated in webOS by homebrew fan
Financial professionals rejoice: an fan-made emulation HP's famous 12c financial calculator, complete with all of the RPN and Algebraic functionality you'd expect, has been ported to webOS and is currently available in the homebrew gallery.
The calculator is based on Elvis Pfützenreuter's Javascript engine and so works for basic calculations but may not be as accurate as the real thing with complex math. Calc12c supports both the Pre and the Pixi, gives haptic feedback each time an on-screen button is pressed, and offers dead-on styling, making it an excellent approximation to the real thing that's sure to delight the mortgage banker inside of all of you.
It may be a Javascript emulation of the real thing, but with all of those HP engineers hard at work pumping out apps in response to CTO Phil McKinney's recent challenge, it isn't unreasonable think that these calculators will one day be a staple in the App Catalog from HP itself, making webOS the financial industry's platform of choice. A physical 12c will currently set you back around $70 new, which begs the question: How much would you pay for a proper, coded-by-HP calculator on your webOS device?
