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Skyfire Mobile Web Browser Review
http://www.pdasnews.com/articles/3503/1/Skyfire-Mobile-Web-Browser-Review
 
By Dimitris S.
Published on 01/28/2008
 

Skyfire

"A few weeks ago, I wrote an editorial commenting on how horrible browsing the Web is on most mobile devices. Amazingly, there's already a solution for this problem, at least for some users. It's called Skyfire, and it is far and away the best web browser for Windows Mobile I've ever seen.This application offers just about all the features you need to access "Web 2.0" sites, like dynamic Flash, advanced Ajax, and Java. It's good enough that your main limitation in browsing is going to be the size and resolution of your smartphone's screen, and Skyfire is even able to compensate for that.I was able to spend some time with an early beta, and I found I genuinely enjoyed putting this application through its paces.Internet Explorer Mobile is a decent web browser. Limited, but decent. So if Skyfire is going to be worth our time, it's going to have to be able to do things the default Windows Mobile browser can't. That's why as soon as I loaded it on an AT&T Tilt I went straight to YouTube.Skyfire acts generally like the iPhone browser. When you open a site, what you see is it shrunk down to fit on your smartphone's display. You can then tap on the screen to zoom in on sections of the page.When I went to YouTube, what I saw was the full site, not a stripped down version.  I selected a video and the page opened, and the video immediately began to play, with full motion and sound." Read more here: