Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: skyfire, mobile, browser | Themes: Software, Smartphones
13. Better Search
If you use the standard Windows Mobile Today screen, you can add a Skyfire search bar to it (this won't work if you use one of the custom Windows Mobile interfaces like HTC’s TouchFlo or the XPERIA panels). You can set Skyfire as the default browser on Windows Mobile (though not on Symbian). But most of the time, you’ll be searching from the Superbar.
The search bar is linked directly to Google (and there isn't an option to switch to another search engine, although you can open any search site you want as a Web page). Because loading multiple pages to find what you want is irritating on a mobile browser, Skyfire now puts all the results in a single list so you’ll find videos, new articles, and local business results on the same page as Web pages. If you don't see what you want in the first few results, you can click to get more search results or you can refine the search to look at just mobile Web pages, local businesses, news, or images. It’s a reasonable compromise to delivering useful search results on such a small screen without making you type extra keywords like "image" or "video" as search items to start with.
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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