LOL, I thought someone might ask that. She'd probably kill me if she knew I posted it, but maybe I'll post it later after I edit it to protect the innocent.

As far as it being "better" than iphone skype, i'm still gonna chalk the difference up to network stuff. I've had other occasions where iphone skype was very smooth and clear (and the quality of the iphone 4s camera is better than the N9) so I'm not so sure it's better than that when it works. I'll qualify it a little more to say that for the location I was in, the N9 handled it better than the two iphone vid call apps. oh and btw, there was another variable here, the iphone was running over AT&T 3G, while the N9 was on T-mobile 3G, both unlimited data plans so that could have had something to do with it too.

No I don't find the FFC crippling. I don't know how to quantify the quality of it, but it was what I expected for the N9 let's say. The gtalk app also didn't break my regular N9 camera like others have claimed, that still works fine, so perhaps there are other things at play in those reports.