I'm still stunned at how little we've heard about this and it's coming out in 6-7 months...maybe they don't want to say anything before as to not create any hype.
I agree - although they said at the end of 2011 that they'd be back in the studio around February 2012 - and they already had some songs / material etc. So we kind of knew they were intending to work, and that they weren't starting from scratch. The really good news is that they - Edge and Larry! - seem to be happy enough with their work so far to calmly say that an album might come out before the end of the Summer. They're not just saying 'we're working on it'. I hope things will proceed as calmly and surely! (They might have found the right producer: the U2 team needed some shaking up after (the excellent, but single-free) NLOTH - some fresh energies.)