Archive for May, 2010

Skyfire: Saviour of Mobile Internet?


If you thought that reading off RSS through your mobile phone was text-heavy, very little images, slow, and cumbersome, you’re not alone. This was more likely due to both your smartphone’s old hardware and likewise integrated web browser. With the introduction of better and more technologically capable smartphones, you may be expecting some improvements with the browser as well. Well, here comes Skyfire to make your mobile web viewing so much better.

The new mobile browser brings the true internet (like you’d experience from your desktop or laptop computer) to Windows Mobile smartphones. Flash-advertisements, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook – any and all web-pages load in speedy fashion thanks to Skyfire’s behind-the-scenes server-magic. With integrated Flash support, animated/interactive advertisements come to life, embedded videos play in the browser, and Flash-based web-pages are finally viewable.

Available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be integrated whether your smartphone is touch or non-touchscreen. It is currently still under beta testing.
More info on this site.