And for anyone missing the lack of a notification light, check out "NoLED" in the Android Market. It's a free app by an xda-developer.

From a former G1 owner...

I was also among those initially disappointed by the lack of HSPA+ and dual-core. However, after using the NS...

If Honeycomb is a complete re-make of the OS, how can it be given a 'minor' bump to 2.4?

I don't see it.

I think it'll be 3.0 and...

So, TI's next-gen chip won't be out till at least the middle of next year, and it's using the *same* GPU that's in Samsung's Hummingbird...

Great summary Taylor.

You did miss one "rumor" -- VOIP for Google Voice. This would be a complete game changer, if true.

Some of those specs seem ridiculous...

Hummingbird is based off the Cortex A8.
Orion is based off Cortex A9.

So, "Armv7" is just fantasy...

Yeah, good catch.

The lack of a notification light would have been nearly a deal-breaker for me, but apparently there's an app called...

Unless you're tethering your phone to play an MMO or torrent the entire Beatles collection, you'd never notice the difference between 6M...

I wouldn't be surprised if Honeycomb brings a ground-up, completely new UI to Android.

I'm *really* looking forward to seeing what...

Completely agree. For the world leader in search, the Market search functionality is a complete and total embarrassment.

"Nearly stock" implies that the OS won't be skinned, however, it will likely either have:

1. Unremovable carrier apps.
2. Certain...

*that should be "omission"

+1000%

If this thing doesn't have a notification led, it will be unforgivable considering Google (and Eric Schmidt himself) are...

This would be a completely stock phone, so the updates would come directly from Google.

If this phone is a single core, it's going to be a really tough decision.

Dual-core, I'm at Best Buy on launch day.

Personally, I find it extremely unlikely that Google will deliberately fragment Honeycomb into tablet/non-tablet. Google doesn't need...

Google's Friday tweet implies to me that Gingerbread is launching this week.

Hopefully that's the case. The Android ecosystem is...

Hector is exactly right. Android is already multithreaded. In fact, that's why multitasking works.

It's just that up until now, with a...

Having the lack of a dual-core processor be the "hardware problem" that was previously reported, would be the *best* possible scenario. ...

I don't see any way this thing launches on Sunday.

I assume Google's going to hold a press conference, of some sort, to highlight the...