Skyfire Officially Coming to App Store November 4th!

Skyfire Officially Coming to App Store November 4th!

Following several other concessions on Apple’s old iron grip, another awesome iOS app has finally broken though — Skyfire. For those unfamiliar with Skyfire, it’s a pretty awesome mobile web browser that’s been around on Android for several months now. The way it works is that it helps navigate Flash-heavy websites by stripping said content and then sending it back to Skyfire’s servers to compress and convert to HTML 5 video. From there,...

Skyfire submitted to App Store.

Skyfire submitted to App Store.

It’s easy to say the weekly stories of App Store approval/rejections are an emotional roller coaster. But finally — Finally! — we can say that Apple appears to be weeding out the stupidity and employing some people with common sense once and for all. At one point, apps that “copied functions of native iOS apps” were banned outright — no matter how good they were. But Apple has at least relented a tiny bit of control. Now there are...

SkyFire launches “world’s first” flash-enabled mobile browser for Android. [Spoiler: It's awesome!] [Update]

SkyFire launches “world’s first” flash-enabled mobile browser for Android.  [Spoiler: It's awesome!] [Update]

…..and just like that, Fennec was beaten to the punch. While Fennec may be the hot stuff in the media’s eye currently with pre-alpha’s jumping around, another contender need not be forgotten — SkyFire. It’s been around for quite some time to Symbian and WinMo users, though today it’s Android’s time to shine. You may recall a leaked beta of SkyFire for Android surfacing about a week ago that was honestly kind of rough around the...

Skyfire for BlackBerry put on indefinite hold. [Browsers]

Skyfire for BlackBerry put on indefinite hold. [Browsers]

Being a BlackBerry user is both rewarding and painful. One one hand, you have one of the best platforms for messaging — whatever type it is — and rock solid stability. However, on the other hand you have a platform that let’s face it, in the consumer age is falling behind faster and faster with each passing day. Just look at the BlackBerry browser — it’s a joke. RIM might as well not even include it for consumer oriented BlackBerries...

Android to gain another browser: Skyfire

Android to gain another browser: Skyfire

Holla! Whoop whoop! Time to get excited. Skyfire is coming to Android! Mobile browsing has steadily gotten better over the last several years with better hardware and software teaming up. Regardless of what OS, processor, or type of display you have, the only thing that truly matters in mobile web browsing is the browser itself. Even today, most phones have pretty craptastic apps installed called “browsers”, with some manufacturers even going as far as to...

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