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(I wrote this I quite a hurry so expect quite a lot of typos, will cleanup later )
to all the iRex apologists, this is a non-issue, whenever you engage on a purchase you are engaging on a binding contract, in wich the seller specifies that for a set amount of money, he will give you an item with certain properties, iRex certainly charged a rather large of money on the condition that it was offering an item which would either already have those properties already enabled or wich would in given time gain them, by now adminting that this would never be possible they have essentially comitted the crime of fraud, and in a sane society, criminals, wich is currently what iRex's current behaviour makes of them, have to face certain consequences, by not standing up to these basic tenets of organized society all you have acheived is assuring the people responsible for fraud that they can rest with impunity and continue with their criminal behaviour, therefore you can expect a lot more of this kind of thing from phillips Irex in the future if they do not face the consequences now.
However if you do choose to make them accountable for their actions you can rest assured that most likely Phillips will step in and sort out their spinoff, hopefully (and more probably) by sacking the entire marketing department wich is mortlikely responsable for all of this, thus ensuring that the compentent engineers that remain are more capable of carrying out their work and in the long term producing superior products, instead of carrying on this kind of fradulent behaviour.

also I believe the lack of a suspend mode is unfixable as long as they keep using xscale processors (I believe this is a limitation of the chipset itself), and would someone please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't phillips negociate some sort of geographical exclusiveness to their E-ink tech (if so , by removing iRex phillips would either be forced to forfeit the entire european market or reenter it in a more professional manner )