Depending on where the phone is selling, video calling might just be downright impossible. Until I got the N900 I didn't even really know there was such a thing as video calling already available on Symbian phones - why? Because it's so not-supported or not-used in the USA that we just don't see it here. At least in all the circles I've interacted with, which is more along the average 'dumb-phone' public.

Now places like India might be nice enough to offer them at reasonable rates, which is nice to hear - and I think they should have included the features as well - but on the other hand, look at the N900 release originally - it, if I recall correctly, came out delayed, much like most Nokia high-end products lately. If they had taken the time to add another video calling feature, it would've been delayed even longer and people would still hate them for it, and god forbid it was at all buggy, or people would ***** about how "they had all this time and couldn't get it right" or whatever. We know Nokia was fragmented internally, with dev teams internally that weren't necessarily competing per se, but had limited resources between them to get things done.

Yes it'd be nice to have video calling. But we have video chat, which works over 3G too, and unlike video calling, in a large portion of the world can be used cheaper and with more people than video calling per se.