Stephen Fry has blogged his review of the 3 Skypephone S2 which appeared in his Dork Talk column in the Guardian on Saturday.

He takes a bit of a shine to the handset, and emphasises the all-inclusive nature of the 3 Skypephone deal:

The S2 is a small, neat unit, manufactured by the Chinese company Amoi. Along the bottom of its bright, clear screen parades a line of familiar icons that allow instant access to Google, Facebook, Windows Messenger and, of course, Skype. It is the work of a moment to input your Skype username and password, and have your buddy list come up and integrate itself instantly with the phone's address book. You are Skyping in seconds.

You might think that such a phone is all about the nature of the network contract. If you have an all-you-can-eat data package, then Skyping looks like a good deal, but if you are charged for your 3G data access pro rata then large bills could be racked up that render the whole thing a waste of money. Well, startlingly, this phone can use standard GSM for its Skype functionality and all calls between Skype users are free. This is true Skyping. You can be out of reach of a 3G or GPRS mast and still Skype away to Sidcup or Sydney.

We're big fans of Stephen Fry's blog and podcasts, incidentally, so you should take a look if you haven't already. Also, for those interested in the free software movement, his recent birthday video is well worth watching. That's where I got the photo above, and it's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, just so you know