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]

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