There has been some chatter on the InternetTabletTalk website today about Skype finally being seen (and them promptly removed again) from the Application Manager on the Nokia N800 (when the local packages were updated). I don’t think anyone has got it to work yet (as the files seem to have been removed very quickly), but the fact thet it appears to be have seen, might mean that a Skype release is coming really soon. Some people are indicating that the new firmware will be a requirement too.

Also in the forum thread, it mentions that the new release will be called ‘chinook’ (all the internal development has code names – the current one is ‘bora’, and the previous one was called ‘mistral’) and that files are starting to appear on the Nokia site. I checked this site last week, and all that was there was an empty folder called ‘chinook’, now there are files in there!!! One of the posts seem to mention that the firmware update may be out as soon as tomorrow (5th July), and to keep fressing F5, but the post seems to have been deleted now… hmm…

Source: InternetTabletTalk Forums