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Good news everyone, Skyfire has just released to public beta version 0.80 of their web broswer.

skyfire.com

What’s New in Skyfire?

The 0.8 release of the Skyfire mobile browser contains the following new features and enhancements:

- Contextual Zoom let’s you simply and quickly get to exactly where you want to be on the page. Skyfire’s zooming capability has been improved, and now the camera corners feature shows you a match with major screen elements within its view.

- Faster application launch means what it says - Skyfire launches much quicker so you to get your content quicker.

- Improved both video and audio quality so you have a smoother playback experience.

- Skyfire will automatically reconnect, so you don’t need to restart when your connection is disconnected.

- Now you can set Skyfire as your default browser.

- Enhanced inline text entry allows you to more easily complete web forms right within a page. You automatically move to the next form element (text field, list, radio button, or checkbox) after you have made a form entry using the ‘OK’ or ‘Enter’ keys.

- Handy new SuperBar to perform a search or enter a URL from a single field – it’s a great time and space saver. As always we provide search results from Google and Yahoo.

- Content download allows you to download images and other content from most web pages.

- Home screen integration allows you to add a Skyfire search and URL bar to your Windows Mobile Today screen, so you can enter what you are looking for right away without first starting Skyfire.

- You can now share web content by SMS. We even make the URL short enough that it will fit easily into a SMS text message. Especially useful for the really long URL’s used by many sites. You can now also share Skyfire itself with friends by SMS or email.

- If a website also has a mobile version, Skyfire can optionally hint to you about the availability of a mobile alternative. With the new mobile site indicator, you’ll get a quick link to access the mobile version – then you can decide if you want the mobile or full website.

- Bookmarks have been significantly enhanced – giving you much better control.