When it comes to watching streaming videos and other media on your mobile phone, there really aren’t that many options out there. Sure, you could use Flash lite with a compatible browser, but laggy, choppy video streams are anything but ideal. For many, the Skyfire mobile web browser is arguably the best mobile web browser that can stream embedded videos. Indeed, Skyfire is the only web browser to feature built-in support for Flash and Silverligth, making it the mobile browser of choice for streaming media junkies.
Today, Skyfire is opening the doors to its Skyfire browser to the world. Previous versions of Skyfire required a US-based phone number in order to register a handset for use with the browser, and recently started accepting Canadian users. With Skyfire’s new Skyfire v0.85, the company is hitting the global stage. Skyfire is now officially being offered in the UK, and Skyfire v0.85 is available for direct download to anyone with the know-how to sideload the application to their smartphone. Additionally, Skyfire no longer requires registration.
The Skyfire v0.85 release updates the Symbian and Windows Mobile clients, bringing with it “Client/Server performance enhancements” and new UK proxy servers to speed up web-page access for UK customers. And, since anyone can download the new client and install it to their Windows Mobile or Symbian smartphone, Skyfire is somewhat unofficially available globally.
Grab Skyfire here.
[Via: MobileCrunch]