Except that Android and Google Voice could snipe them out in nothing flat. In fact, I have full confidence that they could push out their existing code call it

Except that Android and Google Voice could snipe them out in nothing flat. In fact, I have full confidence that they could push out their existing code call it beta, and have all of this functionality on millions of phones right now. The infrastructure is already there. I know it, because I use this fabled phone right now. When I'm on a Wifi network, my 3g is turned off. My texts stream in (and are synced with all my PCs) through Google Voice. My calls are connected to the SIP built into Gingerbread. My outgoing calls are registered with the GVoice web interface (via GVCallback) and are then connected to the SIP on my phone. (also note, that all of this is done transparently. If you call or text the phone number that I give out to everyone, my phone operates the same regardless of if I'm on Wifi/3g/etc) Meaning, when I have wifi, I can make and receive texts and calls without incurring data charges. I can do this over 3g if I wanted as well, but honestly, voice performance on 1x is still better than VoIP.