Panasonic's Lumix DMC-LX1 wide-angle compact

It's little enough at 4.2 x 2.2 x 1-inches (106 x 56 x 26-mm), shoots at an impressive 8.4 megapixels, has a 4x optical zoom (finally!), Leica lens, and a huge 2.5-inch screen on its posterior, but perhaps what sets Panasonic's new Lumix DMC-LX1 apart from the rest is its 16:9 wide-angle CCD and options to shoot in 4:3, 3:2, or the highly coveted 16:9. We don't even want to know how much it's going to cost. Alright, fine, tell us. Oh, £450. That's about $780 US.
Sigh.