28 January 2008

Skyfire Browser Promises
Desktop Like Browsing On Mobiles

Found it early this morning over at PhoneBoy Blog where Dameon claims that he got some insider information and that just announced Skyfire browser will be ported to S60 phones sometime this quarter.

I tried to find something more useful, but I couldn't, there is no proof that it will be ported to Symbian platform.

Speaking of the browser itself in my personal opinion it is basically a greatly improved Opera Mini browser.

Server-side solution that uses Gecko for rendering (same bits is behind Firefox's) and it does full Flash and Ajax, and support zooming. It also does Quicktime, Windows Media, and Silverlight as well and I can’t deny that is sounds quite impressive.

Actually it is quite possible because everything gets rendered on the server and then sent out to the phone. That solves some of the processor, memory and speed issues, but it also adds more benefits, like full AJAX, Flash, Javascript.

SkyFire teams claims that if the desktop Firefox browser can render it, then Windows Mobile phones will render it on the exact same way but again without a single word about Symbian phones.

So let’s wait and se if it will be ported to our lovely phones, beta version looks quite promising and I would like to try it out.

It'll be interesting to see how a this browser would stack up to Opera Mobile, to upcoming Firefox mobile port, or to the great Safari based browser which offers the best mobile browsing experience nowadays.