Good news for iPad avid fans and aficionados! Skyfire has basically been acknowledged as a way to bring Flash video content within web page. Skyfire 2.0 was launched on Android well before Froyo offered Flash built-in, and its recently iOS version offers the videos like Safari. Now that Android’s got Flash, it’s time for Skyfire to present something distinct. The newly issued Skyfire 3.0 wants to do just that with a cool social networking twist. This Skyfire 3.0 was packed with the powerful social media features, which includes embedded Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader, a “universal” like button, and the Fireplace, a pop-up window incorporating a boiled-down Facebook newsfeed that has posts with links.
For those who don’t know about Skyfire or not familiar with it, Skyfire is a mobile web browser that makes requested web page on a proprietary server, relays it to the browser on the end user’s mobile phone, which demonstrates the content. Skyfire recently runs on Windows Mobile, Google Android, iOS and Symbian S60 v3 and v5. Skyfire contains two distinct generations of mobile web browser technology.
In Skyfire’s first generation (1.x) browser, a web page is fullymade by a server separated from the mobile device, similar to the operation of a thin client. This approach is also used by Opera Mini Web Browser.
Skyfire’s second generation (2.x) browser utilizes a hybrid approach, employing a conventional rendering of Web pages on the handheld device, but streaming video from Skyfire’s servers.
Watch the Skyfire for iPad Demo Video on Youtube…just click the link: Skyfire for iPad (Coming Soon) | Press Demo Video
I like what Skyfire had done to social networks. The icons below the browser content looks clean. I hope Skyfire would consider doing a similar browser for computers, at least for PCs.