New PPC Browser : Skyfire - MERGED
 

there is a company starting a Private Beta for a new Server based Browser that looks promising. It requires a WM5 of WM6 smartphone and a US Carrier to sign up.

http://www.skyfire.com/

It looks good. I am signed up and waiting. Should be interesting to see how it works.

Great find! Im as giddy as a little school girl....

Signed up to. Waiting

signed up as well..looks sweet

:headbang:

Alright, signed up, I'll give it a try. Can't hurt while we wait for something else that's decent (Opera 4 crashes and is annoying in java, picsel doesn't seem to be designed very well, and MS is planning on developing deepfish forever and never releasing it).

I signed up too. Looks a lot like deepfish based on the video they have up. The zoom feature looks a little difficult to use... hopefully exclusive use of the stylus is avoided, similar to how opera mini does it.

New Web Browser coming soon...
 

SKYFIRE

Hey whats up guys I just wanted to share this with you since ive gotten a lot of great things from here and a lot of help. I was reading an article on http://www.phonescoop.com/ that Skyfire is making beta web browser. Im currently using miniOpera which i do like no complaints, but this new web browser can interact with any web site using any web technology, and it fully supports Flash, Ajax, Java and other web technologies. It is similar to Palm's Blazer browser, it uses a proxy to format web pages, but it works far faster and renders full web pages as they appear on the desktop. Right now you can only sign up for the BETA but its worth giving it a try they havent't said when they are going to realese it, but here is the website if you want to sing up http://www.skyfire.com/.

By the way here is a youtube video on the skyfire beta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mWUoxiLZFc

skyfire - new browwser with embedded flash
 

looks very promising. very quick load times, full web content including embedded flash. currently its us only and not quite available yet, but you can sign up for the private beta at http://www.skyfire.com/. heres a youtube showing the browser in action, i cant wait to get my hands on this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mWUoxiLZFc

there is already an active main thread on this!

This looks sweet!

ooohh baby this looks good.

where? i searched the forum for skyfire and to my surprise nothing came up

Hopefully this would still work with the HTC 20 key keyboard. I really like that KB.

Looks very promising... Hopefully it'll play nice with the keyboard...

sweet, I just signed up....thx!

Definitely looks very interesting.

This from their site:

What you need to participate
A U.S. mobile phone number.
A mobile phone subscriber data plan with a mobile phone service provider (an unlimited data plan is recommended).
A mobile phone running Windows Mobile 5 or 6, both touchscreen and non-touchscreen phones are supported.
Phones we support
Skyfire will initially run on Windows Mobile 5 or 6 mobile phones in the United States. If you do not know what mobile phone platform you have, visit the Microsoft Windows Mobile phone directory to find out if yours is a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device.
The initial beta release will support only Windows Mobile phones with full keyboards (QWERTY). If your Windows Mobile phone doesn’t have a full keyboard, please continue to sign up for the beta and we’ll let you know when it’s supported.
Soon we will support the Symbian platform.
Other platforms and geographies are on the roadmap, too.

late,
Coz

signing up right now. i'll report back as soon as i'm done.

That's crap. Why exclude Canadians from beta testing? Not impressed when companies do this.

i'm done with the signup, but i wonder how long it's gonna take before the beta comes to us... hopefully not as long as dashwire.

Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile is game changing, does Flash
 

check this out, it looks great finally the iphon will have a run for its money

The Skyfire browser is set to finally bring PC-like browsing to your Windows Mobile device with crazy speeds and support for all manner of embedded content. Sure, there are ways to get Youtube and other mobile video content through proxy sites that convert on the go or with other 3rd-party applications, but this puppy does it all in one sweet and free package. Facebook and Myspace pages load up in no time, video plays in the browser, and all of this is accomplished with some server side magic on the part of the Skyfire server but is completely transparent to the user. All flavors of Windows Mobile -- 5 and 6 for both touchscreen and not -- are supported with the roadmap hinting at Symbian support in the near future. Sounds too good to be true? It is, and you don't have to just take our word for it, follow the read link to get signed up for the beta, this is something that just cannot be missed.
check the video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mWUoxiLZFc

Signed up and waiting...

Not that I want to start a speculation debate but I personally wonder what the memory footprint will look like based upon that kind of performance.

wow looks promising... would love to see a feature to make flash (youtube) fullscreen...

i just signed up for the beta

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/s...ng-does-flash/

This looks amazing! im signed up and anxiously awaiting for it to arrive!

Skyfire BETA Mobile Browser!
 

FULL featured, no better way to describe it.

1. Go to www.skyfire.com
2. Watch the video
3. Sign up for BETA testing. According to them should be ready soon!

FYI: Someone already started one and the moderator has already merged them.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=17094

Signed up today, looks amazying! :headbang:

I feel like the man who walks into the party when there's only 2 drunk guys left :(

I saw this at engadget finally something to replace my Opera Mini

ahahahahah! nice try though! lol i bet u wont be the last one to make a new thread about this!haha

That is so true. :D

Did u see how fast espn loaded up.....oh goodie this is gonna be sweet. And flash is lookin sexy.

Doesn't anyone else feel a bit reserved about giving them your email and mobile number? I smell marketing, advertising and spam afoot.

How Secure?
 

I’m guessing that everyone knows that when you enter a request it goes to their server then their server loads the site and then sends it to you. They can track ever site you go.

I signed up too but...........
 

Well, from what I understand, its proxy based like Opera Mini so I doubt the memory footprint will be large at all.

From their Privacy Policy:
"Once you have subscribed to and begin to use the Browser, we will collect information about your use of the Browser on your Device (“Browser Usage Information”). Browser Usage Information includes such information as which websites and programs you access or download on your Device, how long you visit such websites and use such programs, your activities (such as products purchased or advertisements viewed) on such websites, which specific areas of a website or webpage you use and for how long, websites you bookmark, search terms you use, referring/exit pages, browser and platform types, the geographic location in which your Device is being used and information you provide on third party websites. All of your Browser Usage Information is stored by Skyfire under an automatically generated, random identification number (“ID Number”) that will not be associated with or linked to your Personal Information. Please be aware, though, that your Browser Usage Information, when viewed in the aggregate, may reveal your identity even if it is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information."

In other words, when you use our browser, we track everything you do, and assign an "anonymous" ID number to that information. And oh, by the way, the "anonymous" ID number may be linked to your identity.

Thank you Mr. Orwell for the update.

late,
Coz

Well I think that's obvious..don't you?

http://voice.files.wordpress.com/200...nd_henning.jpg
Doug Henning...famous Canadian

late,
Coz

Well I signed up too. I dont really care if they watch what I am doing.. It will work until Firefox comes out with their mobile browser...