Skyfire will end support for Symbian and Windows on 12/31/10

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...per the announcement on their website.
 
"Skyfire 2.0 is the world?s first hybrid browser, using the best of the device?s native browser, and adding a cloud ?booster engine? for extra features like video and social networking. It is our flagship go-forward product, as we?ve reported publicly for months, since our Android launch.

With that in mind, we are announcing that we will complete the phase out of our legacy v1.0 product on Windows Mobile and Symbian on December 31st, 2010 for remaining countries. This two-year old product used a ?proxy browser? approach which is no longer our vision. It was a revolutionary product when introduced and offered for free, but the fast-moving mobile market has changed significantly since 2007, and as a small tech start-up, we need to keep innovating forward.

Our new 2.0 product is built for the next generation of smartphones and tablets with full support for html5, offline browsing, javascript, WebKit, and full-screen video. The 2.0 architecture is exponentially more data efficient as well, and better fits the technology roadmaps of our B2B customers (wireless carriers and handset makers).

This was a very difficult decision for us. We put our hearts and souls into the 1.0 product and greatly value the many Skyfire fans who used the product and provided us with invaluable feedback during this intensive research & development phase of our company. We experimented with ways to charge for the product (in certain international test markets) so that existing Windows Mobile and Symbian users could continue to use the service, but the payment mechanisms were very cumbersome and the piracy rates were so high on those OS platforms that we could not make it work. More importantly, we faced a decision point: If we were to begin charging money for a product, we had to commit to multiple years of support and enhancement of the product. It would not be the ethical thing to do to start down that path, given that we would not expect enough revenue to make that sustainable on the legacy 1.0 product, and we can no longer subsidize it. The right thing we decided was to focus on 2.0 and beyond.

We do expect to bring Skyfire 2.0 to additional platforms, and have begun discussions with some carriers and OEMs to decide which will be our next OS. Microsoft?s new Windows Phone 7 and Nokia?s MeeGo platform are both shaping up as platforms with a lot of potential and the recent launch of the new Blackberry OS 6 with a WebKit browser core makes for interesting potential for a future release of Skyfire 2.0. We value feedback from our users, so please let us know what platform you would like to see Skyfire on next and just as importantly let your wireless carrier know that you want Skyfire!

Thanks to all of our fans, new and old, for their support. We?re a small 35-person development shop, so all the enthusiasm for Skyfire has been gratifying for all of the engineers here in Mountain View.

Jeff Glueck, CEO"
 
Well this blows... :sad:


I knew something was up when I was looking for it on their website recently and all they had was Apple and Android in the download section, but I shrugged it off.



*Sigh* Skyfire could have really helped the N8.


Now all the pressure is truly put back on Nokia's shoulders with their new browser next year. Not Good... :doh:
 
That realy sucks :( was looking forward to trying this on my N8, ah well, Nokia's browser better be dam good, as in Micro B on Maemo good. The S^3 devices have the hardware, what they are missing/lacking in is software.
 
They're making more money than they had probably ever dreamed of by filling broken-by-design gaps in a certain other platform's browsing experience. They should probably focus on that.
 
It was mainly for watching flash videos on websites, for that purpose it was the best browser in symbian, it was awful for normal browsing though, but it handled flash very well.
 
you're using a device that natively supports flash...
skyfire is making more money than ever before by assisting users of another platform who does not support flash to experience it.....
flash is important, it's actually a selling point in commercials now....
 
Thanks for the app, Definitely buggy. :)


Kept getting "can't connect to the server" when trying to enter a URL. Eventually I found a way into Google, but unfortunately not as stable as it was on S60^1...
 
I installed it again to see if I could answer my own question with regards to ESPN3. I got the same messages as you that it couldn't connect to my wireless server, so I changed to AT&T Internet and it connected, I went to ESPN3 and after about 15 minutes it started showing a bit of a replay. Doubt I would be able to watch a game even over a wireless connection. So I uninstalled it again.
 
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