Bold statement, considering how many people are interested in the project and donated/pre-ordered already.

Other than that, I sympathize with need for pages reception, and HAM-friendly receiver (although, the latter can be achieved easily via USB dongle). Hoever, I don't quite see point of changeable IMEI (even putting aside fact that it won't happen AFAIK, for zillions of reasons), as in my book, it doesn't help to avoid being spied on (as you've stated yourself, sole fact of using GSM&friends service means accepting being traceable to some - not small - extent), and would, IMHO, only serve as snake-oil anonymity "measure", or promoter of fraudulent illegal activities.

Cheers,
/Estel