Nokia’s N800 Internet Tablet now offers free phone calls via the ever-popular Skype VOIP service.

Skype lets you chat to other Skype users for absolutely nothing, as well as call standard landlines and mobiles at a vastly reduced rate, so Nokia’s decision to shoehorn it into the N800 makes the web-surfing clamshell even more desirable. And with Skype currently boasting 196 million users worldwide, finding someone to yap to for free shouldn’t be too tough.

Sadly, you can’t just flip it out anywhere and dial up Auntie Doris in Melbourne – you’ll need to be hooked up to the Internet at the time, so getting yourself over to a WiFi-equipped Starbucks or similar is a must. You’ll also need to download and install the Skype app from Nokia’s website.