Even with Skyfire opening the floodgates for about a week back in August and sites around the tubes having given away bags and bags of beta keys, I’m still getting e-mails asking if there are any quick and easy ways to sneak into the beta for this remarkably cool browser.
Though we’re not sure how long it’ll work, we’ve got a way. At a mid-CTIA press event, Skyfire was passing out little promo cards that offered an in for anybody in attendance: Just text “Skyfire” to 41411. It’ll take 10-20 minutes for a response and it’s still only open to handsets in the US, but it oughtta work for WinMo 5/6, Symbian S60 3rd edition, and a handful of popular Nokia smartphones. Let us know how it works for you.
Just downloaded it and it’s a good product. However, browsing pages designed for 18″+ screens on a 3″ screen still is not that enjoyable. Piping web content straight to mobile without adapting it to mobile is a stop gap solution.
Mobile needs more full featured browsers like this but ultimately we need content owners to design full featured mobile versions of their sites that suit the form factor. It’s not rocket science but it still isn’t easy. To make is happen, we need standards based tools and browser technology that makes mobile web site development less of the nightmare that it still is. It will happen but the pace needs to be stepped up.
I’ve got it. I’m liking Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta a bit better.
@Mobile Boffin. Fully agreed, but then the onus is on the content and application providers to support convergence. The time is now, you need to start moving to architecture that supports multi-device rendering.
very good product, worked as downloaded, and ive been using for 6 month prior as well!
Awesome product!
Rob O.
Take a look at the S60 Skyfire review.
http://is.gd/2zBk