The free browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian (S60, 3rd Edition) by Skyfire mobile phones can be exactly what others can not: Flash Video! (Namely, every Flash video). And the speed is another highlight of the Skyfire browser – simply compare times with the Opera browser for mobile phones, and immediately you see the difference. (Alone even when you start the browser)
How does it work? Skyfire “drives” the web traffic on their server and streams the content to the phone. So Skyfire is, in addition to Flash (9), QuickTime playback and also, for example JAVA Silverlight video and AJAX (supported for Gmail). When you call a website Skyfire delivers the landing page as an image only once, when one clicks on a link, or zooms into the page, the “real data” loaded.
The navigation within the browser is simple; the need to zoom within the pages is of course supported by “double click” on the text of the browser window is adjusted. Links can be clicked on, even without a prior zoom. When forward and backward navigation in the browser you land there forever. Where was the last time – including the zoom function. Incidentally, also supports iFrames in Skyfire.
But everything good has a downside: it will, for example, the HTTP authentication (login / password – for example, Internet banking) is not supported. Likewise, in Flash or Silverlight plug-ins to be entered no text.
Each user can create his own home Skyfire, where RSS feeds and create their own Facebook and Twitter accounts can be updated.
The Skyfire browser is available only in English; Michael Selvidge by Skyfire has made us to the following statement: “Of course we want to provide our browsers in other different languages, but this still has no timetable. Anyway, the nice thing about a browser is that the user to have all their favorite sites anzusurfen is no matter what language it. We currently have users in almost every country in the world – including Austria, France, Germany, Belgium, China, Saudi Arabia, etc. “- actually he’s right, as many menu items or settings, the browser is not that we do not also in English would understand …
Conclusion: For those users who want to surf easily and quickly, and benefit from videos Skyfire is definitely the first choice! Users, who finally giving Internet-banking via cell phone `s wish to settle, must wait until one of the manufacturers support this feature.