Skyfire has announced the
availability of its mobile browser in the UK. Skyfire claims that the
browser is the only mobile browser that makes browsing on a mobile
phone just like browsing on a PC.
Skyfire enables users to access and interact with any website built
with any Internet technology, including dynamic Flash, advanced Ajax,
Silverlight, Java and more at the same speeds they are accustomed to
on their PC. Skyfire is free to download.
Skyfire includes numerous features aimed at simplifying the mobile
browsing experience. For example, when a user conducts a web search
from the home page, Skyfire pulls results from Google and displays the
results in multiple tabs that consumers can easily navigate. In
addition, users can bookmark specific locations on a website to get to
the content that matters most to them in one click. Users can share any
website and send it to friends by SMS with a URL short enough to easily
fit the text message. Skyfires user interface features full screen
navigation, thumbnail views and zooming to seamlessly resize the
content to fit the mobile screen.
Consumers in the UK have been promised the real web on their phone
real fast only to be disappointed by slow rendering, no Flash
support, error messages, watered down WAP pages or second-rate mobile
versions of their favorite site, says Skyfire CEO, Nitin Bhandari.
Skyfire has remedied those ills at a speed not seen before on the
mobile platform. By extending the PC web experience to mobile phones,
we are fundamentally changing the way people use their phones. Our US
and Canadian beta users can attest to that, and now the UK has the same
opportunity to get the PC web on the go.
Since launching its beta in the US, Skyfire says it has broken down the
two primary barriers for Internet adoption on Smartphones speed and
user experience. Skyfire users do not have to change their web browsing
behaviour on their mobile phones because Skyfire allows them to access
the same content, and interact with that content, exactly as they do on
their PC. When users load their favorite sites, they will not encounter
unrecognizable content, unfamiliar page layouts, or missing content,
the company says.
We are fully committed to user experience and speed. In fact, so much
so that we have opened a data center in the UK to ensure that consumers
there have the best Skyfire performance and experience, says Bhandari.
Weve also customized the Skyfire start pages for the UK consumer to
include their most popular websites, like the BBC, Bebo, eBay and
Amazon.
Bhandari adds that prior to launching in the UK, the company ensured
that Skyfire runs on the most popular Nokia E or N Series phones that
are so prevalent in the UK.
Were excited to give these UK Nokia users an iPhone-like browsing
experience, but even better with Flash supported and unmatched speeds,
he says.
Theres a list of the phones that Skyfire runs on  here.  And you can download Skyfire at get.skyfire.com from your PC or mobile browser.