Edit, November 11, 2012:

Confirmed Features (Thanks to Adriweb at TI-Planet ):

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Editor's note: original poster's post follows:

Texas Instruments will be releasing a color-screen TI-84 Plus calculator next year, according to Cemetech member 0rac343 . In a post published this morning, he mentions that his class was chosen by TI as a pilot to test the reception of these new devices. It has the same key layout and case as the standard TI-84 Plus and TI-84 Plus Silver Edition calculators, but appears to have a much higher-resolution, 320x240-pixel screen. He says that the interface feels familiar from using older TI-84 Plus calculators, but that it has slight tweaks and changes. We will be pursuing this story closely and bringing you more details as we get them.Welcome to all our Slashdot and Engadget visitors. We have gotten official confirmation from TI in the form of a tweet from TI and a form on TI's site where you can request notification when more information is available. Feel free to register for a Cemetech account and discuss this development with us . In particular, we are looking to discover if this calculator will have a z80, ez80, or ARM CPU, and if it will replace the controvertial TI-Nspire calculators. Come discuss these possibilities with us!320x240-pixel, 16-bit color LCDTI-Nspire-style rechargeable batteryz80 CPU (speed unknown)Keystroke-compatible OS (that is, same functions and interface as TI-84+/SE calculators)===================So TI is releasing a new TI 84 next spring.And they gave my school 2 full classroom sets (24) to test out.As you can see it is a standard layout, the only thing different is the screen because it's in color.Also the UI is slightly different. Personally I don't really like it but alot of the kids in my class do.And as far as playing around with the calculator, not much has changed. It runs mathprint with the latest OS from TI.The programming language is still about the same. I didn't have time to test it out in class yet.I haven't been able to test out app functionality or compatibility.Thoughts?