Friday, February 1, 2008
Skyfire - New Thunderhawk-Style Browser for Pocket PCs
Posted by Janak Parekh in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:00 AM
"Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile web browser that makes browsing on your phone exactly like browsing on your PC. Now, you can use the web from your mobile phone with unprecedented speed and simplicity. For the first time ever, you can watch any web video, listen to any web music, stay connected on any social network and browse whatever you want. Anything you can browse from your PC, you can now browse from your mobile phone. We’re talking about full-featured PC versions of your favorite web sites. Skyfire gives you speedy page loads, full audio, video, images, dynamic Flash content, advanced Ajax, Java and more – just like your PC."
The consensus seems to be that SkyFire is a server-driven browser, i.e., their servers render the content and send it down to your WM device. This suggests that you'll need an unlimited data plan or WiFi. Given that, however, the video suggests that this may have a compelling featureset, perhaps somewhat newer and more extensive than Thunderhawk's. The beta is sign-up only, but is free--if any of you give it a try and get in, let us know what you think!
The consensus seems to be that SkyFire is a server-driven browser, i.e., their servers render the content and send it down to your WM device. This suggests that you'll need an unlimited data plan or WiFi. Given that, however, the video suggests that this may have a compelling featureset, perhaps somewhat newer and more extensive than Thunderhawk's. The beta is sign-up only, but is free--if any of you give it a try and get in, let us know what you think!
