i like the dial that's coaxial with the tilted shutter button.
Liked it too... until I saw the leaks about the top of the camera. It seems it's the movie/photo/something else mode dial, no real dial for aperture/shutter setting or at least exposure compensation.
hoping for phase-detect AF on the sensor,
Quite probable,
built-in image stabilization (yeah, right),
Not so much, as the 18-55 FTM has IS.
Oracles have it that it's the P&S-oriented camera, and that a more prosumer-oriented one will follow around the PhotoKina.
For me, my crystal ball is fogged with fungus, but I'll do my best to read what I can in the duck fillet this evening.