It'll show up probably in a few months. It looks like the 1.6 and 1.86 CPUs are a BTO option only, and have a lead time of about 6 weeks. I just ordered one a few days ago, and delivery is scheduled for 3/7. Probably they have component supply problems (imagine that!) and don't want to have too many yanks hollering about a two month wait for their computer.

Could be the 5D fits your bill. You'll miss out on some of the niceties of the 50D or 5DII, but the price is right, the IQ is great and a 14 mm lens is 14 mm.

They were referring to the physical size of the camera, not the number of pixels in the sensor.

Not really true. There was a lot of excitement over Sigma's SD-1 concept. People were seduced by the promise of DSLR-like image quality in a compact digital-sized package. It was to be the perfect pocket camera for the kinds of people that care about IQ over MPs. Sigma didn't really come through, but it doesn't mean their concept was flawed. I thought that was a good idea, and I think this is also has potential. Given the looks of Oly's prototype, I can see these generating some sales.

Not quite. In Europe everything is listed as the EOS, but in the US and Japan (other markets IDK) the entry level cameras don't use the EOS branding. In Japan they are Kiss, and in the US/Canada they are Rebel. IIRC, the 400D is called the Kiss XSi in the US and Kiss X2 in Japan. Why? Who knows. But the 40D is marketed the same everywhere.

please post the read link...

Ahh, fork that!

Ummm, but actually, forks are pretty much ubiquitous in Japan. Sorry.

Seems like this coincides with SoftBank releasing a 3G prepaid handset. Now that it's released there probably isn't much demand for 2G handsets, other than for service replacements.

well maybe only in form factor. The Leica takes exchangeable lenses,
while the DP-1's will be non-exchangeable and fixed focal length.
Someone above probably had the best analogy, a Ricoh GRII with an
APS-C sensor bolted on. I was pretty excited about this camera a year
ago, but looking at the lens specs, my ardor has cooled a bit. It
looks like a lot of compromises were made to stuff a full-sized
sensor into a compact body.

We'll see, it may still be a dynamite camera for certain situations.

the Foveon sensor is 1.7x, I think