Okay; when they said the IQ supported the Pocketbook software platform, they meant it.
http://www.pocketbook-usa.com/support/pocketbook-iq/
Same games/apps; same (proprietary) dictionaries--in addition to the Lingvo ones.
Basically, it's an LCD-based 302/603...
...that also runs Android apps and video on the side. A air trade for he reduced battery life.
(The odds of FBReader180 and Hacked ADE running on it just went way up. And so did the odds of me buying it.)
Now the only question is whether I'll wait for the Android 2.2 update or trust that it'll show up sometime before 2012.