Skyfire v0.85 supposedly available for worldwide consumption

by Darren Murph, posted Nov 26th 2008 at 4:33AM

Being that we're currently situated in the United States of America, we can't personally test out Decoder's claims that the latest and greatest version of Skyfire is ready for global domination, but we're taking it's word for it. Reportedly, most WinMo users and Symbian S60 owners can point their browsers to Skyfire's download page and suck down v0.85 without having to prove that they're in the US / Canada. Stop salivating and give it a go, hopefully everything turns out just peachy.

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decoder @ Nov 26th 2008 5:55AM

Hi Darren,

Peachy it is! I have now successfully downloaded and installed Skyfire without authentication on both a Nokia N95 & E71 here in the great land of Oz!

Let me tell you, Opera has its work cut out for it keeping up!

Cheers and thanks for the mention!

decoder.

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Deimos @ Nov 26th 2008 6:03AM

Works very nicely on my new Sprint Touch Pro, and since Skyfire servers handle the bulk of the work, i can watch Family Guy while i wait for for my oft late co-worker, without any repressed feelings

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Tubeliar @ Nov 26th 2008 6:52AM

Yep, confirmed to work from the Netherlands too :-) You have to point Pocket Internet Explorer to http://get.skyfire.com to get the cab though. Doesn't work with opera: you'll just get the desktop version of the page telling you to enter the URL on your mobile. They just make it easier for US (and UK and Canada) residents with the send-link-to-your-phone thing, but they don't even want to prevent others form using it! It says so on the download site:

"Although you might be able to use Skyfire outside the US, Canada and UK, our focus is providing the best user experience for our active countries. Using Skyfire outside these countries is at your own discretion."

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jurriaan @ Nov 26th 2008 7:27AM

I've been looking forward to this for a long time. Just installed it but when I try to run it it freezes at the "locating....." screen. Does anybody have some suggestions ?

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Sarig @ Nov 26th 2008 7:56AM

I installed it the other day, but it seems to want to use edge/3g when I have a perfectly fine wi-fi connection available, and has a somewhat draconian privacy agreement :/

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carcomptoy @ Nov 26th 2008 8:35AM

The speed shouldn't be too big of a factor considering that it's already compressed information. Wifi won't make it much faster than EDGE/3G when the bulk of the work is being done by servers.

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Sarig @ Nov 26th 2008 8:40AM

Speed is not the issue, the lack of a decent data plan is :)

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Quark999 @ Nov 26th 2008 8:50AM

The lack of WVGA support for the Xperia X1, or the Touch HD is a major bummer, and I have no idea why it would be so difficult to implement...

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scagnetti @ Nov 26th 2008 9:20AM

Wow, just downloaded Skyfire for my HTC Fuze (aka Touch Pro) and it seems a bit faster downloading pages and can view Flash and stream videos which IE & Opera either can't or do a piss poor job doing.

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scagnetti @ Nov 26th 2008 9:23AM

Oh yeah, they also direct you to the full internet site and not default you to the crappy mobile site.

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Ilya @ Nov 26th 2008 9:33AM

I'm very happily using it in Australia. Works like a charm on my N95 and HTC Touch Pro.

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mike @ Nov 26th 2008 9:53AM

i like skyfire i really do but there's one thing that bothers me. it has been happening with every version along the way and including this one - going to engadget mobile brings you to the page from about two days ago, cannot see any recent posts. anyone else notice that?

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