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Gertjan, what about the academic user? How would this fit to the categories you mentioned? And the price? Would you think 500 EURO is for the f-ing average reader? (the US price I payed, about 350 Euro, might be)

I think iRex management/marketing just has a talent to annoy people by removing features that would make the DR800 easy to use and by announcing false deadlines. They want the DR800 to be as less functional as possible, so people would still buy the DR1000, despite the fact that DR1000 morally (and maybe technically) outdated and that DR800 has a price which other companies would target the premium user, not the average book reader (WHO WOULD BE HAPPY WITH A 6 INCH DEVICE WHICH IS ALSO CHEAPER, BTW, not to mention that there are 6 inch models on the market who have some features not present in the DR800). Also, what's with the deadlines? Announce the release of the DR800 for September (I think) and release it in January (or was it February)? Announce firmware for April and release a buggy version in freaking June?

Don't get me wrong, I love my DR800, but there are small things that irritate me, despite the fact that my overall impression is that it's a great device. But the iRex management and marketing is either formed of fresh graduates who have no freaking idea what they are doing or irresponsible bastards who deserve only to manage some company which does cheap iPhone or iPad rip-offs on a ship.