Skyfire 2.0 beta availible

[ksc6000#AC]

Finally it arrives....I haven't gotten a chance to fully test it out. My main concern is how it will impact the battery on my Nexus one.

But it's exciting that we're getting semi-flash capable software. What do you guys think?

 

[Cory Streater]

Phil showed it off in a video on the front page if anyone's interested.

 

[Air Force One]

Well I'm absolutely impressed. If you dig into the NYtimes videos , you'll see they use some kind of cool and different interface than say youtube.

 

[Whitedynomite]

I've been using this app all day..AMAZING!! Lightning fast, FLASH, for videos u can click n expand no hold up..easy to ZOOM OUT n ZOOM OUT...etc,..

 

[terpitude71]

diggin it so far. only used it on wi-fi so far, so i am curious to see how quickly desktop pages/videos load on 3G

 

[Genetic_Bloom]

I've only tried 3G so I'm excited to test it out on wifi. It's at least somewhat faster than stock I think on 3G, but I'm not very good at judging the speeds.

 

[SteveC]

I downloaded this morning, it worked fine...a definite wow factor. I used it for awhile and really liked it. I had the phone in my pocket all day, and now when I attempt to open...constant force close. I rebooted, uninstalled and reinstalled, pulled the battery. Still force close on attempted opening.

So hello Dolphin untill this sorts out.

 

[Mr.Miagi]

I have only tried on 3G and liked the results. Its pretty darn handy and cool. It loads the full espn page maybe a bit faster then the stock browser but also loads the video. The pinch zooming is not as good as the stock browser but this is still a beta. Overall definitely worth a try and could be used as the go to browser if you like its set up. The way it displays multiple pages I think is better then stock ( you can see the pages and scroll through unlike stock which is in list form).

This is definitely staying on my phone and I am looking forward to the final version.

 

[anon(12496)]

I installed this last night, lets see how it fares so far:

1.5 MB of space - check
Little buggy and slow on my Hero - check
Force closed on me once - check
No pinch to zoom on 1.5 - check
Uses more data than Opera Mini - check
(I'm stuck with a 100MB data plan for now, keep in mind)
Allows me to watch Zero Punctuation on my phone - CHECK !!!

Seriously now, great concept, it just needs some work and bugfixes. And a little optimization for those of us with slower phones. The only problem is I don't really see myself using it daily. It can't beat Opera Mini in terms of data usage and that's very important for me until I can switch to a much needed larger data plan, and the stock browser handles most of the pages I visit well while on Wi-Fi. If I really need to go to a page that's really not mobile friendly, I do that from a computer usually.

 

[Chris2183]

I installed this last night, lets see how it fares so far:


Little buggy and slow on my Hero - check

Allows me to watch Zero Punctuation on my phone - CHECK !!!

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LOL The first thing I could think of watching was Zero Punctuation. Its slow on my Eris but I only plan on using it for streaming videos that the stock browser cant handle.

 

[chdtpn]

I prefer the stock explorer over skyfire, just couldn't really get a feel for it.

 

[WeGlobal]

Might have to give this a try. I already tried Dolphin, liked it alot too. I'm back on the stock browser but I will try Skyfire.

 

[nox]

I prefer the stock explorer over skyfire, just couldn't really get a feel for it.

Thats exactly how I feel. It's a cool concept, but the look and feel of it is crap imo.
If they could implement this into the stock browser, that would be great. Devs, get on this ?

 

[terpitude71]

tried it on 3g today, and i was fairly impressed with the browser speed, even on desktop style pages. my only gripe is that it doesnt let you look at a page before all of the elements on that page are loaded

 

[pwrmetal]

Wow, I gave it a try yesterday on my Droid and thought it was awful. By far the slowest browser I have tried. The pinch zooming was laughably bad. On my wife's old, crappy Windows Phone I loved Skyfire, but was definitely disappointed with the Android version.