SkyFire (Browser)

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Skyfire is a mobile web browser for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 (formerly known as the PocketPC platform) and Symbian S60 v3. It is currently in beta testing. Although, officially, only people with a US phone number can sign up, Canadian numbers registered for the open beta have begun receiving links to the beta. ^[1]

SkyFire Browser is now an open, rather than invitation-only beta. ^[2]

It is the first browser software for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 which allows viewing of inline Flash animation and streaming video.

1 Features
2 Technical Notes
3 References
4 External links

Features

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Mobile browsing exactly like your PC: With Skyfire you can shop, watch web video, listen to web music and stay connected on your social network -- just as you would on your PC. You can view all the full-featured PC versions of your favorite websites. Skyfire gives you speedy page loads, full audio, images and video. From Myspace, Facebook, YouTube to Hulu - it's the full web experienced on your phone.
The real web, served-up right: Unlike other mobile browsers, Skyfire supports the desktop version of Adobe Flash applications so sites, including those that serve-up video and music, are rendered exactly as you would expect - just like your PC. You will instantly recognize the content, be familiar with the page layout -- which is not true for most mobile browsing experiences. Skyfire supports all of the entertaining features of the web today - not just Flash, but also Silverlight, Ajax, QuickTime and more. And even better: Skyfire evolves with the newest capabilities without any .CAB file update.
Skyfire has introduced SuperBar in version 0.8, a field that combines the address bar and search into one. ^[3]

Technical Notes

Skyfire is a web browser which operates solely by server-side rendering of web pages and meta-content (see web proxy). Skyfire servers transcode (and pre-render) websites as interactive images, tagging items such as links and text-fields as interactive. Skyfire report the user-agent as a Firefox 2.0 browser running on Windows XP; theoretically using an application hypervisor to create and maintain per-user sessions (ex: you can maintain an authenticated session, such as accessing Google's web application suite with your username).