Skyfire updated to 0.9; even more PC-like web goodness

By on Feb 12, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Software February 12, 2009

In the age of streaming everything, mobile browsers are definitely not having an easy time keeping up. At best, streaming a video to an OEM smartphone browser is a complete mess; at worst, it’s impossible. Enter Skyfire, a third-party browser we’ve covered here on BGR before and the best way to describe it might be to quote the company’s homepage pitch: “Watch any video, listen to any music, stay connected with friends, browse whatever you want.” Of course that’s a bit of a reach but Skyfire does multimedia processing on the server side, opening up a whole new range of sites and services that become accessible – Hulu, YouTube, Last.fm, the Hype Machine and so on. Skyfire today announced the availability of version 0.9 of its mobile browser which includes tons of tweaks and new functionality:

  • New start page – integrated RSS, Facebook, Twitter, etc
  • Improved readability – adaptive font sizes, contextual zoom, etc
  • Widescreen / hi-res support – Handsets such as the XPERIA X1, Samsung Omnia and Nokia N80 are now supported
  • Improved Superbar – improved auto-suggestions
  • Multimedia downloads – there is now an option to download audio or video files streamed by Skyfire
  • Updated page rendering – faster page loads, better zoom
  • Updated plugins – Flash 10, Silverlight 2.0 and newest Quicktime are all now supported

There are also a variety of version-specific improvements and tweaks such as better email link handling in Windows Mobile and improved battery life for the Symbian version. Conclusion: Current users, update ASAP. New users, catch up.

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  • steve

    i forgot to mention my phone is a n95 btw

  • Scorpions

    hi, i’m new using samsung omnia I910 from verizon I have downloaded skyfire and works prety good, but have some issues first of all is when a try to download a large video file this take longer than suposto and does’nt download the video for example a movie its go to 13% and stop then show a message internet conectiuon problem check you conection and try again this problem come from this web: http://www.watch-movies-links.net

  • smith

    redfly? pleeze?

  • shimimo

    it would not start on my htc find

  • Will

    With all the inquiries for a Blackberry version, I would hope that the next version will be supporting Blackberry. Obviously Blackberry would be a serious market for Skyfire.

    We can just hope, and wait. But from what I’ve heard a LOT of places, it seems that it is next on the roadmap. So lets hope.

  • lemuel

    it is the best browser i’ve ever seen,but its only work on series 60 3rd edition?!
    Can you develop for 2nd edition?

  • sandy chwatuk

    My problem with skyfire 0.9 they added a time out. SO when your watching or listening for 10 min you get timed out and it goes to home page or your phone get’s frozen and you have too exit Skyfire
    This is one annoying add on to lose your contents after 10min
    .

  • Radar1625

    I’ve been running Skyfire on my tilt for nearly 9 months and its the hands down winner for the total web experience. the only thing I would like to see is a download manager like Opera 9.5b2. any chance of that?

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