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Originally Posted by Mr. Goodbar
I completely missed the price increase. I'm not sure how they consider a price higher than a Kindle DX realistic. I had high hopes for this device, but the news just seems to get worse every day.
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Basically, at this point there is no way I'd buy
anything from iRex no matter how good the thing looked or what the price is. This company is just a disaster from beginning to end, and it sounds like they need a complete management overhaul. With all the other problems I've read about with their other products (power management issues, unending delays in promised updates, etc.) and now with this unbelievably mismanaged product launch (a 7th grader could have managed this launch better), I am at the point of having zero confidence in anything produced or promised by iRex.
I do believe at this point I'm going to buy the Skiff reader when it comes out unless it has some kind of horrible contrast ratio. It really seems like it will be the gold standard for e-readers unless you just really want something of a more compact size. I'm impressed by everything I've read about it so far; all of that in a quarter-inch thin device (I was looking over the tech specs for the DR800 the other day and was astonished to see it is
more than a half-inch thick - pretty unbelievable in today's electronic world).
Good luck to anyone who forks over their money to iRex when or if this vaporware product of theirs ever actually gets off the ground.