Skyfire hooks us up with 100 beta codes, mass chaos ensues

By on Aug 15, 2008 at 8:21 AM
General August 15, 2008

If you haven’t been lucky enough to try out the awesome mobile browser that is Skyfire, now is your chance. We’ve got 100 beta codes which will give you immediate access to either the Windows Mobile or Symbian clients. In our usage, the Symbian version smokes the Windows Mobile version, but that might just be us getting excited. We’d love to see a couple changes to the client: local browsing history, more shortcuts, fixed menu layout on the E71, and a couple other things. But all in all, this is the browser to beat. Even though they use server-side rendering, we haven’t come across a single site that didn’t work for us, or didn’t allow us to navigate, enter text, submit forms, and hinder anything we wanted to accomplish. Plus, you can view full Flash websites. You can’t beat that. If you want to sign up, use the beta code “bGenius” (negative on the quotations there Skipper). Let us know what you think of it, ok?

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  • Rob Gilbert

    I’ve used it for a while now. Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t like it that much?

    The problem with all of these visual (vs text) browsers on our little QVGA screens is the lack of a single column mode. For reading text, it’s just too much resizing and sideways scrolling.

  • LuÇah76

    Just DL’ed…man this is nice.

  • Mike Branscum

    How do I get the code from BGR? All I see is an article about it and a link to Skyfire signup?

  • http://www.istudioweb.com/ Vlad (Small Business Blog)

    Downloaded and installed on AT&T Tilt. Looks a little better then IE for Win Mobile. Haven’t had much time to play around more, but the zooming feature was a surprising hit :)

  • cas

    -_- how do I download this?

  • Jeff B.

    WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
    I’ve seen it before on my friend’s phone but to actually have it is just AMAZING!!!
    THANKS SO MUCH BG!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://ultimateapple2.com Anthony

    How can I receive a beta code to download this cool program?

  • http://ultimateapple2.com Anthony

    never mind…downloading now..thanks guys!

  • andy

    Ive been using this on my e51 for about a month, and although its not a terrible browser, it does have some quirks.
    #1. the rendered pages are very fuzzy and hard to read. zooming in takes longer then I find acceptable
    #2. compared to mini opera, this thing is dog slow.
    #3. Ive lost the connection a few times, and the web page doesnt save automatically.
    #4. flash videos are stuttery and not in sync with the audio.
    #5. You cannot transfer bookmarks from the native symbian app to skyfire
    If these issues were addressed, i would be happy.

  • tony collins

    dude it kills my bat life on the mogul so fast its my only gripe

  • eliel

    Yea i thought i was only one tht really didnt like it but just with a few little changes here and there it might just b my favorite browser! Keep up the good wrk guys!

  • BENZO

    HOW DO I GET A BETA CODE TO DOWNLOAD IT?

  • BENZO

    I GOT ERROR * Beta code is invalid

  • Russell

    What do you have to do for a beta code?

  • vickie

    i have tryied to download with the code and says code not valid am I doing something wrong or is hit and miss i hear the an great browser

  • McHale

    Been using it since Beta 1. I uninstall and reinstall it and then remember why I uninstalled it in the first place.

    If you browse a lot of flash or intense webpages, this will give you that ability on your phone – I don’t. But if you only do occasional browsing and hit mainly HTML pages with pictures on them, this browser is actually a PITA. Hard to explain, but it is. And where’s the tabbed browsing? The next version of PocketIE is supposed to finally feature tabs and auto zooming. I can wait for that.

    If Iris could get rid of all the issues with their latest beta, I’d much prefer it for everyday web browsing. But it is VERY slow and crashes quite a bit.

    I’m back to PocketIE and Opera Mini again.

    -Mc

  • lefty11

    where are the 100 codes? bGenius is invalid now..would really like a valid code. someone email me one, please

  • d_anders

    No way will they be charging for it. IE7 Mobile is expected to support flash and silverlight.

    The only thing they got is that you need to login into SkyFire for it to work, so I expect that it not only tracks where you are browsing they include a search facility right the main screen. Plus, it’s soo fast because it’s likely providing pre-fetch caching on it’s servers and providing some level of additional encryption to make browsing as fast as it does. Just my guess..

  • Marshal

    Hi there can someone help me get the program will you give me a beta code or an e-mail and a password so that I can use it pls pls pls pls pls ;(

  • kakeking

    Yup… the password issue wont let me log in… dammit!!!

  • Marshal

    I have succesfully hacked skyfire well not exactly hacked. It is quite simple actiolly. All you need is an us mobile phone number and an e-mail you don’t need the sms the number is the pass. I will post a program that gives you those directly.
    O and I am writing from skyfire. It is realy nice. How i figured that out siple this was only for americans. This means that it is something stupid. Then it hit me that the number must be the password. It took me 5 mins to get a random us mobile phone number to use and you have it.

    video link: YouTube – skyfirejustice

    Watch the video and read it’s description!

    AND HIGHT QUALITY ONE:

  • Marshal

    The video and the description i found!!!
    Sry about the first bad link

  • Frank

    This web browser is so buggy on a symbian phone that it crashes which also causes the phone to hang too… And i managed to get it without using a us number because for some random reason when i registered they gave my the code through e-mail.

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