Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: skyfire, mobile, browser | Themes: Software, Smartphones
7. Web Performance: CNN and BBC News
If you just want the news headlines, a text-only page or an RSS feed is fine. But if you visit CNN or the BBC to see images and video or to leave your comments about stories, then you want to see a full, rich version of the page.
Skyfire loads the front page of CNN twice as fast as Safari does on the iPhone and nearly five times as fast as the browser on the BlackBerry Bold. Opera seemed to have a problem finishing the scripts on the page. Although the headlines, links, and layout seemed to have loaded fully after a minute and we could read the stories and scroll through the page, the progress bar was still showing the page as loading after three minutes.
The BBC News page took a similar amount of time to load. However, the differences between the 3G, EDGE, and WiFi speeds for Skyfire say more about the variable speeds and bandwidth of mobile data connections than they do about Skyfire, while the relative load times for Safari and Opera are consistent with the CNN page load times. The browser on the BlackBerry Bold gets redirected to the mobile version of the BBC site, which takes the same time to load over 3G as the full site does in Skyfire over an EDGE connection.
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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