Well, I really wanted to write this:
I think they should morph the next one into a GF1 like rangefinder. They could call it the G2 (sorry Contax, but your just too slow). They don't really need the pop up flash, so they could put an EVF viewfinder there, keep it the same size as the GF1 and they would have a run away best seller, since that is really what everyone wants
. Hell, even a optical viewfinder, with lines that lit up for different focal lengths would be a run away seller.
The external/slide in finders totally ruin the whole small camera experience, in my opinion, as they make the camera cumbersome and not pocketable.
It seems like Ricoh, Olympus and Panasonic are dancing around the answer. Leica has a partial answer, but they won't implement live view and they're too expensive and maybe to large. This whole thing makes me think that there are a lot of stupid people in charge at Leica, Panasonic and Olympus, Ricoh, and even Sigma, because they just can't see there nose in front of their face. The answer is a Canon G11 type body, with a larger sensor and interchangeable lenses. There I just spelled it out for them now who will be the first to be smart enough to make it?
But I figured if I wrote that, than I would sound negative and like a know-it-all and you know how that goes over in these forums, so I'm not going to say anything, but it is an interesting topic, never the less.