No release date yet. Played with the Flyer today, and I think that's the way I'm going. It's now a question of patience: wait for Christmas and let the fiance chip in, or get it now and finally have some closure on this, as well as get back to my ereading and personalizing my tablet. It'd be easier if I had the Kobo wifi to hold me over until Christmas (not the same, but a limp along), but that's wrapped up at the mother-in-law's house. Then I could take it to the gym now (it'll be my gym reader, Borders liquidation).
Hmm ... maybe I could make a deal with the fiance and his parents; I can have the Kobo back and wrap the HTC up?
The Flyer's also proven and has a new OS coming up, if I decide to go Honeycomb way, whereas the A1 has a lot of uncertainty going on. I'm hoping that when B&N goes all official Monday, that HTC will be motivated to drop the Flyer's price closer to the new Nook. If so, I'll grab it, and the fiance can just find me something else for Christmas ;-) Or get the pen if it drops down in price ;-)