Ahh thanks. It definitely does look like the phone can, thanks. I found a picture here: http://bbs.dospy.com/viewthread.php?...4#pid189631241

It also had a link to a .deb which I've ar/tar extracted to see if it's an exploit (it seems safe). It also contains .conf files which look like they set name-value pairs which might be all I need to tweak in mc-tool to make the built in phone app provide that dropdown. I could always add users and top-up credit on other devices (or reboot to nitdroid, where the mic doesn't work for skype calls).

So the n950 DOESN'T just have a skype option, the apt repo does not contain the skype UI like the n9. In answer to your quite reasonable question at the end