Skyfire mobile web browser coming to Google Android
Skyfire is a mobile web browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 phones. The browser is one of the fastest around, and one of the only mobile browsers around that can handle Flash and Silverlight content. That's because Skyfire uses a secret weapon: the browser doesn't have to do all of the page rendering. Instead, Skyfire compresses web pages on its server and delivers them to your mobile device.
Skyfire announced today that the company has acquired kolbysoft, makers of the Steel browser for Android... or rather, the Stel interface for the default Android web browser. Steel is one of the most popular applications in the Android Market, and the Skyfire team hopes to use kolbysoft's expertise in building a WebKit-based browser for Android to help port the Skyfire web browser to the platform.
There's no word on how long it will be before we see Skyfire in the Android Market.
[via Gizmodo]
Skyfire announced today that the company has acquired kolbysoft, makers of the Steel browser for Android... or rather, the Stel interface for the default Android web browser. Steel is one of the most popular applications in the Android Market, and the Skyfire team hopes to use kolbysoft's expertise in building a WebKit-based browser for Android to help port the Skyfire web browser to the platform.
There's no word on how long it will be before we see Skyfire in the Android Market.
[via Gizmodo]













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Subscribe to commentsiptydafuFeb 11th 2010 5:10PM
that's great--it was down all of yesterday
DrakkenfyreFeb 12th 2010 7:53AM
Phone in the pic looks more like an MP3 player.
ChrisFeb 11th 2010 11:15PM
This is GREAT! Everyone is so used to NOT getting things like Hulu on their phone that no one ever believes me that I would get it on my old crappy T-mo Wing. Skyfire browser is the only reason I miss having an old Windows Mobile phone.
Having it on Android almost seems too good to be true though, like there's no way the powers that be will let me watch regular Hulu from my phone at the same price data plan I have now........