Calc4M 2.2

Developer Lars Johanson
Date Added July 20, 2008
Type Free full version
Platforms Java ME
Rating
Connectivity Internet not required
Website Calc4M website
Calc4M

Description by Lars Johanson

This is a scientific calculator for mobile phones. It is configurable and contains most of the normal functions such as trigonometric and logarithmic functions, conversions, constants, memories and binary, octal and hexadecimal notation.

If fully supports both touch screen and non touch screen models, you may use the buttons, if you have a touch screen you may also click on the screen. It automatically adapts to the screen size and phone model standards.

It is easy but still fast to use and with lot of functionality. One important thing to note is that most buttons have two functions. Press and hold down the key to access the "secondary" function.

The following settings are configurable

  • display a welcome screen or not
  • display the call stack or not
  • automatically return to the basic arithmetic screen or not
  • use full screen mode or not
  • use nice looking button texts or "safe" texts that works in any mobile
  • two different keyboard layouts
  • calculation font size
  • default number format (sci/eng/default)
  • type of "long button press" notification

For more screendumps of the calculator, see http://www.hellebo.com/Calc4M.html

For the calculations, the library ral.Real is used, see http://real-java.sourceforge.net/Real.html

Changes for version 2.2

  • Fixed an error that occurred when performing certain conversions without giving any input. Thanks to zjlee51 for reporting.

Changes for version 2.1

  • Fixed a calculations error for hyperbolic functions, thanks to ArturO
  • Added a function to display decimal numbers in degrees, arc minutes and arc seconds, thanks to azza for the suggestion

Changes for version 2.0

  • Changed the colour scheme
  • Made it calculate factorials exactly up to approx. 400000! (thanks to Rick)
  • Made it work on some phones with only letter (no numeric) buttons (thanks to Hubert Hickley)

Changes for version 1.17

  • Changed so it uses CLDC 1.0 instead of CLDC 1.1 (may work on older phones)

Changes for version 1.16

  • Added possibility to define how many decimals to display (in settings menu)
  • Changed so that the "fire" button now performs the calculation ("=")

Changes for version 1.15

  • The conversion between miles per gallon and liter per 100 km was wrong by a factor 10. Thanks to Nuno Gil for notifying me.

Changes for version 1.14

  • Made the #-button work properly on newer Nokia S60 (thanks to Peter Frank for making me aware of this and to Odne Hellebø for letting me try it on his new phone)
  • Added functionality to touch screenphones, drawing left on the screen now is the same as pressing the left button, the same for up, right and down. To perform an "all clear", draw a slanting line on the screen
  • Changed horsepower conversion so it now states it is metric horsepower, hp(M). Thanks to Egídio Campos for pointing this out
  • Made the start screen display only the first time after a fresh installation

Changes for version 1.12

  • Made the menu accessible for Motorola ROKR E6 (thanks to Jaap Geurts for helping me with this)
  • Fixed a bug that allowed typing 8 when in octal mode

Changes for version 1.11

  • Added octal numbers
  • Fixed a bug that occurred using the conversions in some special cases
  • Made it work better on old Samsung phones such as E250

Changes for version 1.9

  • Made it work better on BlackBerry

Changes for version 1.8

  • Made the menu look nice on Nokia S60

Changes for version 1.7

  • Added some conversions

Changes for version 1.6

  • Added possibility to click on the touch screen on touch screen mobile phones
  • Added an "undo" function that lets the user regret input
  • Changed how to ge

Reviews and Comments

Kishan103 / Nokia 6300 / November 12, 2009

Very good application

tia82 / Nokia N81 / March 25, 2009

Decent scientific calculator. Also works great on my friends touch screen phone.

pocketcollector / Samsung SGH-E250 / February 10, 2009

Must have scientfic calculator