We’ve mentioned Skyfire before – they’re the ones aiming to hop in and face-punch all the other mobile browsers by doing everything the rest can’t; Flash, AJAX – all those fancy intertubes technologies generally reserved for desktop browsers.
After a $13 million funding round and a couple of roster expansions, Skyfire is all prepped for its Symbian launch – for beta testers, that is.
Sometime yesterday, Skyfire began passing out beta tickets to those who had signed up over the past few months. We haven’t actually found anyone in the beta so far, though, so no impressions just yet. If you made it in, feel free to drop a comment and let us know what you think.
If you’re totin’ an S60 third series device and want to check out Skyfire pre-launch, head on over to the beta signup page. It may be a while before they open the floodgates again, but its first-come-first-serve, so the sooner you sign up the better.
So I made it into beta 1 for Windows Mobile, but didn’t get the invite for beta 2 yet (yes, you actually have to sign up again to get the next beta). On Windows Mobile, it works great, but seems to be a little resource heavy. I often get “out of memory” messages. Also, I don’t like that if it loses your internet connection it kills the app. Sucks when you’re on an elevator.
The flash playback is nice, and for the most part everything works pretty reliably for a beta. I’m comparing against Opera Mobile 9.5, which doesn’t have flash playback.
I sign up to this beta test for 2-3 weeks ago, and i thing that in Russia this browser will not appear fast(((
P.S. If any body have password for this browser, for os symbian, please write me e-mail: stanislav.antipov@gmail.com I in duty shall not remain. :)