provided this is not PR spin, the guy should be applauded for admitting his product was substandard and taking the financial hit of scrapping a batch and starting again.

now admit to not giving his team enough time and money to make the product as specified/required, despite what his developers were saying? Now that would be a first...

When this handset was first announced here in Australia, some of the reader comments expressed doubt that the handset would indeed make it to market (citing previous experiences with Ruslan / Kogan). It would seem these comments were spot on.

Sad really, I was looking forward to test driving the Agora handset.