Shift Apps Digits Calculator for iPad
This is painful to be posting about iPad-related stuff since I’m not getting one yet. I wish I had decided to start a tech blog instead of a design one so I could have gotten one already.
Shift Apps has launched a beautiful calculator app for the iPad called Digits.
Features include:
- Autosave feature: resume where you left off the next time you launch Digits Calculator.
- Scrollback: one touch to delete mistakes and go back in tape history.
- History tape: a convenient record of what you entered five seconds ago or five days ago.
- Pick your own background color.
- Dedicated total display: always know the running total.
- CE and AC be gone! Digits has backspace.
- One-touch flagging of the last item on your history tape.
Check out the video here:
That is gorgeous. I feel your pain about being iPadless, but hang in there.
Apple has long been in the forefront of industrial design. No doubt the iPad is yet another example, and seems to be the first widely successful tablet. I definitely want one.
I do think that Apple sometimes falls short here and there too. Fighting a second button on the mouse for so long, for example. While this calculator app looks very elegant and impressive, it also points out a glaring shortcoming, and that is the lack of multitasking. Fine for a phone, but I might just want to enter those numbers into another app at some point.
Seriously, going gooey over a $500 calculator? It had better pop out the appropriate amount of money every time I press the $. Including coins.
There really shouldn’t be any hurry… Usually, first gen devices still has a lot to improve. That is what I am waiting for too. Making sure that when I buy, I get the best, bug-less iPad possible.
Joe: One thing that is cool is that it saves everything when you quit so if you have to leave the calculator and come back you can resume right where you left off.
sirdodger: The iPad can do more than run Digits Calculator, I believe.