Really nobody outside of iRex knows, and they wanna don't tell, because they don't want the "osborne effect".
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Originally Posted by http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=2555&highlight=effect
Exactly! It's called the Osborne Effect, after pioneering computer maker Osborne Computer Corporation, who went bankrupt because the announced a new model in advance of shipping, and killed their revenue stream while everyone postponed buying. Almost no one pre-announces new versions of existing hardware. (They might announce they're entering a caterogy, as Astek has recently with ebook readers, but only a fool says don't buy what we're selling now because we've got something better coming out later.)
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One day a new device from iRex will be suddendly out, nobody knows if its tomorrow, next year or never because iRex is closed.
It has been guessed that if we would be them, we would target this winter for a new release, because Astak announced this winter their new windows-crap reader, and iRex should react on this.
Astak in the contrast to iRex who are not yet in the market especially want an osborne effect, by announcing features/prices which likely will not hold (at least on the price side, there were also rumours they are not going to deliver the price they announced first place.)