I looked at it around 7 am and it was finally up and I have it. So far its great and work very well. I live in a non highspeed area for my HTC Touch (Sprint) and the pages load very fast with skyfire. Now watching a video off of youtube.com doesnt work that well but that expected. When I get into work I will beable to see how well this really works.
SkyFire web browser
- Thread starter gogol
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Okay, yes the flash and stuf is nice, but speed and usability is a joke on my excalibur... I mean you use the zoom box and it takes like 10 seconds to re render the text... and then when you scroll up or down it repeats this long proccess for whatever new content is now on your screen... no comparison to Opera mini...
Skyfire is running AWESOMEly on my touch dual on Optus 3G in Australia.
Both IE and Opera 9.5 would struggle with things like Formula 1 live timing (java), flash pages and the like, but Skyfire chews it up! It's so good.
I used my australian mobile number to sign up to the beta, it didn't work at first but when I reset my password using the website it worked great.
It's like the best things about IE (compatibility etc, also Opera 9.5 wouldn't recognise the dual's hardware keyboard which was a pain) and Opera (zoom and scroll, drop down menus etc).
Well done Skyfire - it behaves like it sounds MS want IE8 to behave. MS will probably buy them out and wreck it. Oh well...
Both IE and Opera 9.5 would struggle with things like Formula 1 live timing (java), flash pages and the like, but Skyfire chews it up! It's so good.
I used my australian mobile number to sign up to the beta, it didn't work at first but when I reset my password using the website it worked great.
It's like the best things about IE (compatibility etc, also Opera 9.5 wouldn't recognise the dual's hardware keyboard which was a pain) and Opera (zoom and scroll, drop down menus etc).
Well done Skyfire - it behaves like it sounds MS want IE8 to behave. MS will probably buy them out and wreck it. Oh well...
I have it now, it is FANTASTIC. Blows away opera and pocket IE. Active web content on the phone. Coolest freaking browser to date. I can watch videos from the main nfl.com website, you tube, and freaking HULU!!!!
show me another mobile browser capable of doing that!
show me another mobile browser capable of doing that!
+1 : great link, great article, great product !!!
Works perfectly from France on my HTC Touch P3450 (Opera browser was craching after 2-3 min of use ... skyfire beta is fast and stable !).OK so it doesn't do text in flash forms (yet), and the fact that everything you do (passwords etc) runs through their proxy servers means that I'd probably be reluctant to do banking etc using it -still it remains my default browser for its outstanding rendering capabilities!
Currently, Skyfire is only supported in the US on Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms. To participate, you need a Windows Mobile (5 or 6), or a Nokia N or E series (3rd edition) phone.
But they have opened up the new 0.8 Beta to EVERYBODY in the U.S.
So hurry and get yours now.
http://www.skyfire.com/register
But they have opened up the new 0.8 Beta to EVERYBODY in the U.S.
So hurry and get yours now.
http://www.skyfire.com/register
Skyfire rox
Amazing.
Better and smoother java content than on my pc with IE!
A big leap for Opera Mobile but not just there yet.
In term of speed and java compatibility.
Use random phone no. for non US.
For downloading and Skyfire log in creation use "Download to PC" option!
Lp Grga
Amazing.
Better and smoother java content than on my pc with IE!
A big leap for Opera Mobile but not just there yet.
In term of speed and java compatibility.
Use random phone no. for non US.
For downloading and Skyfire log in creation use "Download to PC" option!
Lp Grga
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Can somebody in the US create an account for me? I can't understand why they restrict the beta.
I can't understand why they restrict the beta.Nice speed, amazing that can show YouTube videos just like a PC, I wish scrolling webpages was a bit faster.
Also clicking in a field to type something is a pain or maybe I am not able to do it. And once you type something, the ENTER key does not work and you must get out and click on the SEARCH button for example in Google.com
Only if JOOX.NET worked this would be awesome! Not that joox.net is ethically right to use or not.
Also clicking in a field to type something is a pain or maybe I am not able to do it. And once you type something, the ENTER key does not work and you must get out and click on the SEARCH button for example in Google.com
Only if JOOX.NET worked this would be awesome! Not that joox.net is ethically right to use or not.
also the browser lets the phone go to sleep while you are waiting for it to open a page. thats a bit too obvious of a problem to be in a beta 0.9 almost release version.
They are smarter than Firefox people as they have a --> button still after the address sign, Firefox 3 removed this necessary button, I have no idea why they did that.
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Is this going to be a pay to use browser like thunderhawk? Because I would rather just buy it then pay a fee to use it...
Can somebody in the US create an account for me?
Go to the skyfire website, sign up with any phone number (take the whitehouse phone number under contacts
) sign up with your REAL email, and request the activation again but this time it will send you email, populate a password then check your email download from the net instead and use your password and email to authenticate simple really!
Now they simply send you a link to your email and you can download it to your pc. (Now need to ask for a resend)
