Skyfire
Skyfire is a mobile web browser which renders requested web
page on a proprietary server and relays it to the browser on the end
user's mobile phone which displays the content. Skyfire currently runs
on both the Android and iOS platforms.
The Skyfire Browser is built for the social-networking
generation and for people who love Android and want to get more out of
it.
Features:
- Multiple window browsing
- Flash video - play millions of Flash video while minimising
video data usage
- User Agent Switching - load web pages as either traditional
Android user agent or as a desktop browser
- Facebook QuickView - keeps your Facebook page loaded
- Fireplace Feed Reader - provides a combined, filtered list
of your Facebook and Twitter feeds
- Popular Pages - see what pages on the site are the most
popular
- Related Ideas - analyzes the page, presenting topics to
explore
- Skyfire OneTouch Search
- Facebook social integration with a Facebook Like Button on
every page
- Twitter Integration - keeps your Twitter page loaded
- Sports, News & Finance Buttons
- Google Reader
- Find on page
- Pinch to zoom, double tap to zoom
Verdict:
Skyfire offers a good implementation of
cloud browsing enabling web
pages to be compressed on Skyfire's servers. It lags behind in the
SunSpider benchmark compared to its competitors.
 8/10
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