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Frankie confirmed that was Jen Taylor as Cortana a while back, so no one needs to worry there.
I'm thinking the changed armor DOES have a canonical reason. 343 has tried so hard to make everthing fit into canon better going so far as to update the older books, that I doubt they'd make a drastic change like that without story reasons. The wallpaper link someone posted a page back is a very clear marketing/press image of Cheif in the new armor, so I doubt it looks that way just for the CG trailer either. Putting a few things together, it sounds like there will be story reasons for the new armor. I thought I read something where Frankie was asked specifically about the changed armor, but that may be innacurrate. However, when he has been asked about various details in this trailer, he words his statements in that really particular way that Frankie does when he's hiding something and doesn't want to give away secrets. He says something to the effect that this trailer is for all intents and purposes chronologically after the legendary ending of Halo 3, but what point in the Halo 4 game this might take place he would not say.
There COULD be a connection with this and the Halo Legends Origins short where Cortana is somehow physically able to brush condensation off of Chief's cryotube. In the commentary they say that she shouldn't be able to do that and kind of hint that there's more to that. (could just be rampancy, could be something else) My random guess at all this is that at somepoint in the game before this trailer Cortana and/or Master Chief has been upgraded maybe by Forerunner tech even. For Cortana to actually be able to make physical contact she'd have to be upgraded by something more advanced than Human (or be hallucinating/rampant/imagining it). Whoever may or may not have upgraded her could then have upgraded Chief's armor also, or Cortana could have perhaps done it. Perhaps it was done with, or over his old armor causing the damage on his chest to still be there (or it's just coincidentally been damaged in the same spot for a casual audience to easier indentify this as MC for some reason).
Anyway until more is revealed by 343 its hard to be too conclusive about anything relating to his armor or much else, so that's just my shot in the dark based on what I've seen and read from 343's Halo stories up to now and interviews they've done recently.
[Edited on 06.28.2011 8:11 AM PDT]