When we wrote about the not-quite-official soft launch of Skyfire v0.85 a few weeks back, one little morsel slipped through the cracks.
While we properly noted that registration requirements had been removed from the mobile browser, the newfound support for folks in the UK, and an “experts only” download link which essentially freed Skyfire of its geographical limits, one newly implemented feature that many had been clamoring for managed to stay off the radar until Skyfire’s folks decided it was time to make v0.85 official: support for VGA screens.
Along with making Skyfire accessible to those outside of North America, VGA support was perhaps one of the enhancements most often requested by their users. Without it, at least two of the most popular recent Windows Mobile handsets – namely, the HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro – were unable to run the browser properly. Being that Skyfire is the only free mobile browser around supporting Silverlight, Flash, and a handful of other multimedia formats generally reserved for desktops, we can see why Touch owners might be itching for it.
While VGA support is in, there’s still no love for the slightly portlier WVGA; Sorry, Touch HD and T*Omnia owners – no Flash on the go for you just yet.
Finally! Going to go download this onto my Fuze.
never heard of skyfire, i generally use opera on symbian mobile, i’ll give it a shot.
another skyfire http://www.eskibirsaat.com
Great flash support! How could they achieve it?Any alliance with Adobe?
This browser is the only one I have been able to watch Hulu dot com on. Great for streaming web video on phone. wish pointer on phone would go to hyper links on page. navigation around hyper links on a page a bit slow.
Its not the HTC Touch that needs the VGA support as it is only a QVGA screen, but rather the HTC Diamond. The Diamond and Touch Pro are similiar with the biggest difference being the the Touch Pro has the slideout keyboard.
You can read more about the Touch at http://www.myhtcphone.com
to get this running on a pocket pc ( dell axim ) you are going to need to download this ( http://forum.htcgeeks.com/redirector.php?url=http://www.winmobiletech.com/092007MidletBible/Fix_dlls_for_PPC.zip ) and pu the two files in the folder that the program is installed in.