Scion, with that thinking you'll never buy stuff, since you'll know there's always something bigger and better in half a year!
Btw you're almost my son in Texas, he has a HD2 (like I do), and he's getting a rooted Nook Color for his birthday this Saturday!
Steven, they're shipping with Gingerbread, as far as I could tell from the website! ANd their own add-on that makes it a bit like Honeycomb as well. In about one hour and 20 minutes I expect an E-mail from India, since I was one of those who registered to comment on that blog rather early. And I will pre order. I don't really give a flying rat's ass about reviews, this thing is so cool that I want to see it for myself as soon as possible! Especially since it's got that Pixel Qi-screen.