As Sony has said Skype will be available on PSP so on (January of 2008) as per the recent announcement.

But the bad thing is that the feature will be available only on the PSP-2000 and not on the earlier version of PSP-1001 , this is because the software will not run properly on the PSP-1001.

Even the new firmware 3.80 runs slowly on the psp 1001, the ram i believe is insufficient to run the new softwares.

Hence the newer psp with twice the RAM as compared to the older version Will be capable of running skype smoothly .

moreover introduction of a feature that doesn't work properly is a waste of resources and sony will be blamed for the bad quality of the device because of the feature which no one could think of when it was first launched