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We now bring you a blurry picture of the not so cool Samsung u450 Intensity. The handset is headed for Verizon and will have a place on Best Buy shelves as well. Official word isn’t in yet but seeing as the u450 Intensity features dual keypads, a 1.3 megapixel camera and Bluetooth, there won’t be lines a mile long to grab one. Oh well, this could be exciting if you’ve never held a dual keypad before. Of course we’d rather jump straight to the Omnia 2.

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Skype, the company that brought cheap and free calling to the internet is about to give the same relief to mobile handset users. Specifically it will be Google’s Android phones that will be getting some love from Skype.

Skype is a unit of the internet auction giant eBay, and the mobile version of its web-based voice and text service is called ‘Lite’. The software can be downloaded for free to over 100 Java enabled handsets or those rocking Google’s open-source Android platform. 

With ‘Lite’ users will be able to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and low cost calls to landlines and cell phones in 10 countries; the United States, Britain, Poland, Brazil, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Australia and New Zealand.

As far as carrier endorsement is concerned, you’ve probably guessed it, carriers are definitely threatened by the move since their revenues are at risk if users start preferring Skype to using their call services, but the growing popularity of Skype is now forcing them to think otherwise.

Skype has more than 370 million users around the world and it’s positioning the Skype Lite software to also support phones using Java software and devices running on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system.

The T-Mobile G1 runs Android software while phones from LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are Java-enabled. iFans don’t get Skype Lite yet, but don’t be disappointed, it will come. Here’s to free calls!