There’s nonentity like having the power to choose, and the mobile Operating System known as Android definitely provides that. Take, for exercise, the power to choose which browser, at any meter, you want to manipulation while on the go. There’s definitely all sorts of different routes to go, and now a new summation has been welcomed into the Marketplace.
SkyFire announced backrest in February that they had purchased another maker of a mobile web browser, called Kolbysoft. They were the ones behind the pretty well-liked Steel mobile web browser for Android, and we’ve been waiting patiently to see what sort of changes would come after the acquisition. Well, here they ar, brought to Android in the pretense of SkyFire 2.0 for Android. And yes, it does lineament Flash video, but it handles it in a bit different means: the SkyBar.
Users hit the Menu key piece on any one particular page that has Flash video recording on it, and you’ll be able to select “Video” from the SkyBar, which volition then let you choose the video you wish to play. This agency that pages load faster, because they won’t be constantly trying to render the video recording in the backdrop. Additionally, it cleans up a lot of the page, and lets you see the content, and choose when you want to see the video recording. All goodness around changes, and we’re glad to see Steel and SkyFire combining to make something good. Press release below.
Skyfire Launches the First Flash Video Enabled Mobile Browser for Android
The first ‘mobile web browser for the Social Media generation’ eliminates broken golf course from your Facebook stream, tracks Twitter buzz, and makes share-out easy
Mountain View, CA – April 29, 2010– Skyfire, manufacturer of the awarding-winning vane-browser for mobile devices, today launches Skyfire 2.0 for Android, making the mobile internet experience faster, Flash-enabled and fun, with media recommendations and social features. Skyfire is single of the fastest growing mobile browsers in the worldly concern, ranking in the circus tent 10 all-meter apps in the Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace. Skyfire 2.0 for Android is built upon many of the popular features of Skyfire’s 1.0 web browser, and uses swarm computing to spring a “booster engine” to mobile phones so they tin handle rich media like video recording. And now, Skyfire 2.0 for Android takes mobile browsing to a new floor with the addition of the SkyBarTM, a new toolbar that lets users enjoy millions of videos previously unviewable on mobile, and also discover the latest buzz on any subject they browsing.
What is the SkyBarTM?
The SkyBar brings the best of the internet to a mobile user’s fingertips, without any additional searching. By activating the SkyBar with a ace touch, users are given approach to Flash videos on a vane varlet that otherwise would not swordplay, related subject recommendations, and easier share-out with their sociable networks.
· Video –The “Video” icon enables users to play billions of Flash videos around the vane that otherwise do not play on mobile. This unlocks content trapped behind those mistake messages with question marks and Amytal Legos. Behind the scenes, videos are translated into a format easier for the earphone to play, like html5 video.
· Related Content – The “Explore” ikon brings the most relevant content on the internet to a user’s fingertips based on what they are viewing at the time. The Explore push button pulls video recording, bombilation, newsworthiness, images and other sites from the web based on what is on the stream varlet.
· Sharing – The “Share” icon lets users contribution any clause or video recording easily to their friends on Facebook, Twitter, or by email and SMS electronic messaging, adding a comment, and all with a ace click.
The first mobile browser for the sociable media generation:
“Skyfire 2.0 was built for the way people manipulation social media and the web today. People ar now starting their vane experience by scanning their Facebook and Twitter news feeds,” explains Jeff Glueck, CEO of Skyfire. “Our new browser allows you to surface those links and view the videos that your friends rich person shared. To shuffle that employment, people motivation a browser that can handle the full internet.”
The Power of Cloud Computing:
Skyfire on Android uses swarm-computing engineering to enable this vane video recording; the benefits for consumers include faster and smoother video playback, and extended assault and battery life by offloading more of the work to swarm servers. At the same meter, since Skyfire 2.0 is built on a webkit core, users get all the functionality they know on the default Android web browser, such as collar to soar, written matter and paste, discovery textual matter on the varlet, open up to eight web browser tabs, and more.
Skyfire is single of the fastest ontogeny downloadable browsers with usage increasing 500% year over year, and currently cyclosis over 25 1000000 proceedings of Flash video every month, more than any other mobile browser worldwide.
Skyfire 2.0 for Android is available for download worldwide free people at turn.ly/skyfireandroid
About Skyfire
Skyfire is the creator of the Skyfire mobile browser, and has a mission to enable the “full internet” including rich media on mobile phones. The web browser won the Best Mobile River Application-People’s Voice at the 2009 Webby Awards and was named a Top App of 2009 by the New House of York Times’ Gadgetwise. Skyfire is based in Mountain View, California, in the spirit of Silicon Valley. For more selective information, visit www.skyfire.com, or follow Skyfire on Twitter attwitter.com/skyfire.