Netgearing up for the future?

Netgear announced their Skype WiFi phone at CES and they have a sparsely populated information page on their site to give us more details.
The phone itself looks ok, not flashy, but reasonably inoffensive. I read the FAQ, but it certainly wasn't the most frequently asked questions of anyone I knew!
The really interesting questions (except for price, which they didn't answer anyway and had better be under $100, or it's not going anywhere) are:

1. What is the IM interface? like SMS, with autocomplete?
2. How does the phone detect and sign in to WiFi networks?
3. Does it have a browser built in?
4. What connectivity/ports does the phone have?
5. What operating system does it run?
6. Why do the keys look really tacky?
7. Are you trying to look like an iPod? If so, does that mean it can store and play MP3s?
8. What about Flash memory - SD cards? Skype File Transfer?
9. How long does the battery last?

and now the big question, that I was discussing with Jan a couple of days ago...

10. Who is going to provide support for it? And don't say Skype, cos we know what their 'support' is like!

I'll still probably buy one and try it out on Bangkok's many and totally unintegrated WiFi hotspots, but I can't help thinking that either Marketing missed the potential of this, or it just isn't designed for 'roaming' use away from your home network.
The limited information and FAQ would have had a different flavour if it had been.

I was sure I'd blogged that Skype was going after the mobile market, but I can't find it anywhere. Must have been a comment on some other blog! Anyway, they are, and they can start to make inroads with the new crop of WiFi enabled phones.