Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: skyfire, mobile, browser | Themes: Software, Smartphones
10. Bookmarks
Once you've visited a site you can save it as a bookmark, as you can in any PC browser. If you've zoomed in and panned to a particular area of the page–like the Latest News or Latest Reviews panels at Tom’s Guide–then that’s what you’ll see when you open the bookmark again.
Skyfire comes with a set of popular sites already bookmarked and categorized into Video, Social, News, Local, Sports, and Games. You can delete these if you don't use them and move your own bookmarks into the other categories if you don't want to leave them in the Unsorted section (but you can’t create new categories to put your bookmarks in). If you change phones, set up a free Skyfire account and log in on both handsets and your bookmarks will show up in both places.
One drawback is that because your bookmarks are stored as a Web page in Skyfire, then the list takes time to open up, and when you do open it, you navigate away from the page you're in. So if you change your mind, you will have to wait for it to reload. But like opening a bookmark, the page will come back in the same place and at the same zoom level as before.
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Now, if only they would release an iPhone app for this...
I'm not much for windows mobile after I used the BlackJack. It tends to slowly turn to crap as time progresses. It would be really nice to see this technology on a phone that's already championed as the best phone ever (generally).
This browser looks great and does great, except for smth. that is important for a phone like mine (Nokia E51) with a smaller screen: it cannot rotate the page which is annoying esp. when watching video...
somehow i cant see a third-party app beating a native browser, then again we have firefox....
@pocketdrummer; Skyfire can't produce a version for iPhone (keen as the team would be to do it) as Apple doesn't allow other browsers on the iPhone.
@pocketdrummer; Skyfire can't produce a version for iPhone (keen as the team would be to do it) as Apple doesn't allow other browsers on the iPhone.
there are alternatives im sure of it but there more based on the integrated safari?
I wonder how skyfire stacks up against bolt? It would be nice if this worked on my 8230...
Now, if only they would release an iPhone app for this...I'm not much for windows mobile after I used the BlackJack. It tends to slowly turn to crap as time progresses. It would be really nice to see this technology on a phone that's already championed as the best phone ever (generally).
Sorry to hear of your WinMo experience. I have the 2yr old Tilt on AT&T and haven't looked back since. Had to replace only once after having dropped it...Oop's! Waiting till my November date to get my discounted TP2. Of course my WinMo is XDA hacked running SPB Shell 3.0