No video, no. As I understand it, Skype's proprietary protocol was designed for desktop computers with reliable Internet connections. It doesn't accept delays in the video stream, and it doesn't gracefully drop the video stream if one occurs--it ends the whole call.

From what I've read, the processors in the tablets are powerful enough to handle Skype video calls, but only just. Should a background process activate or the user try to do anything else on the tablet, the call severed. In the end, Skype video wasn't reliable enough for Nokia and Skype to offer it.