I do belive that alot of the homebrew can be ported to play on a 3.xx kernel now. Ive got a slim & a Phat and they are pretty much running 5the same apps. Its only the really old 1.5 homebrew that you will miss out on. Ive got Afkim working on slim MAME ,SNES all ISO games & the back ups work well. I love the slim, but the phat is cool too. More features on slim.
I dont believe the phat will get skype because of lack of internal ram.
Its bigger in the slim
sorry Genemech just getting uesed to this whole forum thing. point taken

cheers