I remember the days not long ago when 3's only major unique selling point was its 'Video calls' on mobiles, which of course i see people down the street bumping into lampposts using all the time . .. If you ask me, they were LUCKY that the market shifted to people wanting to have emails delivered on the move and using thier phones as 'modems' for doing 'proper computer stuff', on thier laptops. As we all know the 3G charging rates are for 'data usage', its how telecoms providers make their money at the moment now that we dont 'talk' to each other as much any more. Its great that they are implementing Skype into mobiles but are they truely serious about offering 'free' calls 3/Skype device to 3/Skype device? I dont know about you but where i live, the coverage of Wifi isnt as seamless as a GSM network, only limited to peoples unsecure routers and random ISPs, so its a given that they will be using the currently implemented 3G infrastructure, which . . . uses data . . which, at the moment. . you pay for. . .do they really, REALLY have the safelty net to allow calls to continue being free if this takes off. . guess we will have to wait and find out

Actually following developments over the year I think it may have been 3 pushing the integration of the device from the start. It seems the Mobile magazine put things together in this article http://www.mobil.se/ArticlePages/200710/08/20071008152303_MOB019/20071008152303_MOB019.dbp.asp which shows that 3's investment in brew was a while back, following on from the work they did on X-Series. 3 seems to be pretty innovative and I doubt they had to be persuaded to do an imbedded client. It might have been them who pushed it. We'll see. It'll probably become clearer soon. Whatever it seems to be a very smart product.