Non iPhone users will be pleased to hear that they too may soon be able to browse the web on a mobile device as they would on a home computer. The SkyFire browser, already tipped to be one of the most important mobile software releases of the year, supports Flash video, Java and Quicktime, and features a manageable interface to make pages more readable on the small screen. Most importantly though, SkyFire claims that its software offers desktop browsing speeds on a handheld, with no restrictions over media content display and accessibility.
You can watch video on sites like YouTube, Dailymotion and Break or listen to music on Last.fm, Rhapsody or Yahoo. You can also take your social networking up to the next level with Facebook and Myspace, and browse for all the latest weather, news, Google Maps and sports results.
SkyFire is currently available for free beta download from www.skyfire.com for Windows Mobile OS devices like the T-Mobile MDA Vario 2. Smartphone users will also be pleased to hear that a Symbian S60 version is set for release later this year. You can view a very cool video demo of the software’s features below.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mWUoxiLZFc[/video]
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Any body have skyfire we browser for my nokia n73
I hope it doesn’t cost, i’ve read somewhere that skyfire will install all the cookies on there database, which means anything we browes with skyfire they will have it logged on their database and sell it to thrid parties thats how they will cover their cost plus the adverting aswell.
Skyfire will most likely NOT be free. Its formatting the pages via a server then pusing it to your phone, exactly the same way Thunderhawk used to do. They charged a subscription fee for this service and i can see Skyfire doing the same.
After all someone has to pay their bandwidth and server bills
I am really looking foward to this web browser, although opera is the best web browser at the moment, there are certain things it dosen’t have that the skyfire has. plus its FREE which is a bonus.
when is it coming out???????
Well Opera Mobile costs money, though we’re yet to see what SkyFire does when it gets past Beta. Also the zoom and flash support seems to be much improved on SkyFire, and it doesn’t ‘dumb down’ webpages to view on a mobile, it just beefs things up from the front end.
What wrong with opera mobile? It does this aswell.