Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: skyfire, mobile, browser | Themes: Software, Smartphones
11. The Skyfire Start Page
Sometimes you know exactly what Web page you want to visit, and sometimes you’re just looking for something to do while you wait for the bus to arrive. The RSS feeds on the start page that you see when you first open Skyfire are useful for both. You can add a feed for your favorite pages to make it faster to get to the latest stories and you’ll find something interesting to look at when you have a little time to kill.
Skyfire includes links to ESPN, Google News, Digg, Yahoo, Hulu, and YouTube on this page, in addition to some you may not have heard of, like Howcast. Icons let you see which service a news story is from before you follow the link.
Click the Customize link to turn the default feeds on and off (you can’t remove them completely). You can also add the news feeds you want to follow on the My Feeds tab. If you know the URL of the feed or the URL of the Website, you can type it in yourself or you can just type in some keywords to search for RSS feeds that cover a topic.
If you don't usually look at any of the links on the Start page, they won't slow you down. You don't have to wait for them to load because the Superbar is the first thing that is available, so you can start typing a URL or search right away.
See RSS feeds and friend updates together on the Skyfire start page.
Pick and choose from the default RSS feeds for the start page.
You can type in the URL for an RSS feed you want to follow...
...or search for a feed that covers your interests.
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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