Skyfire Version .9

[huynhc]

Originally Posted by Ranger093

The same old NON-VGA ****.

i know... WTF?! i just installed and still no true VGA support.

[letsgoflyers81]

Originally Posted by Ranger093

The same old NON-VGA ****.

Yep, they say it supports VGA and even WVGA at this point, but text and graphics look like crap. I'll stick with Opera Mobile for now.

[lion75y]

Well IDK about u guys but the new Skyfire works fine on my TP... I dont have problems with the screen resolution or anything like than.. even the older version the .8 something at first i had the problem because i had it on my mogul and just install it from the same MicroSD card to my TP but then i just downloaded again from the skyfire webpage and it works fine!!!!

[lion75y]

I forgot to tell u guys.. U have to unistall first the Skyfire version u have on your phone and then install the new one..
Havve fun!!

[Gkillratio]

Skyfire is also working fine on my TP.

[smilepak]

I still think Opera render is better. Heck even Iris render is better and faster.
http://www.torchmobile.com/

[TurboFool]

Two things people don't understand:

Yes, it "works fine" but still looks like crap. It doesn't support VGA. It's pixel-doubling. When the people in this thread complain it's not VGA, they don't mean like the first version we installed on the Touch Pro that didn't fill the screen. They're referring to the fact that it's pixel-doubling and therefore looks fuzzy, unlike a native app. It does the job, and it's the best we've got for Flash support, but it still doesn't look as good as anything native.

As for why it's not in native VGA, you people need to realize this thing is STREAMING what's essentially an interactive video of the web page to our screens. When you're browsing, they're rendering the page, then sending it as multiple frames per second to our phone. It's amazing what they pulled off with it, although it's slightly choppy. But that's at QVGA. 320x240. VGA is FOUR times that amount of information. If it was choppy before, and took a lot of bandwidth, imagine it requiring four times that to drive our phones at full VGA. This may be either a permanent limitation, or a trade-off for even choppier performance.

[coolwhip1220]

Only thing I use this for is hulu.com anyways. Opera for everything else. But updates are always nice.

[signothefish]

I only use Skyfire for iGoogle and looking at flash pages.

[AboveTheBULL]

Looks like they took out the "Fit to Page" feature (activated by pressing '6' on the keyboard)