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Mountain View, CA (openPR) 23 June 2010
Skyfire today released version 2.1 of its Android browser. The expansion provides increased stability and support for 750,000 additional Web sites for watching Flash video.
Since the launch of Skyfire for Android 29 Skyfire April, more than 500,000 new users added. In just six weeks Skyfire activations of the top 0.7% of all the 65,000 have apps on the Android Market.
reachesSkyfire Mobile Video Raises Cloud’s problems, the Adobe Flash 10.1 Strain to Resolve
Skyfire allows Flash videos from all over the millions of Web sites that use the popular Flash plug-in. Skyfire does Flash video transcoding of video files into HTML5 in the cloud and its optimization for mobile delivery. Skyfire Cloud-technology means video to play faster and smoother, with less buffering, less “stuttering” and a better battery life.
In a series carried out by testing Skyfire could, users will be able to see twice as many minutes of video per hour, and get 30% more battery run time when the native Flash are released over 10.1 this week to a subset Android phones. The vast majority of Flash video content over the Internet is designed for desktop computer with high-speed connections. When it comes to mobile, this reproduction makes it difficult, especially on crowded 3G networks. Skyfire is guaranteed that every cloud right video bandwidth is adjusted and the correct format to store hardware decoding, the battery and keep video performance.
surethe cloud, in short, Skyfire optimized almost all video in seconds to enable a great user experience.
Watch this video to see Skyfire compared to Flash 10.1 in a side-by-side test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwOEofc1VIc
Skyfire: Built for the Social Media Generation
Skyfire is the first mobile browser for social media generation built. It allows users to connect from Facebook, Twitter, iGoogle, Digg, and much more – and follow to play the videos on these deep connections via social networks together. The Share button on the SkyBar allows easy sharing of content to multiple outlets. Skyfire has also surf smart recommendations on each topic of the users. This feature allows the user to access the latest news, tweets, videos, blog posts and loved on every topic, with just one click on the Explore button SkyBar.
Skyfire success on Android raises the bar for the mobile Internet in general. Android users revealed that smartphone users want all the content on the Internet on their devices do not work only one or two “mobile” sites, “said Jeff Glueck , CEO of Skyfire. “The content that changes every day, questions and runs on millions of ‘long tail’ sites. Skyfire users do not have to wait for a WiFi connection to enjoy great video.”
About
Skyfire:
Skyfire is the creator of the Skyfire mobile browser, and has a mission, the “full Internet” to enable rich media on mobile. The browser won the Best Mobile Application, People’s Voice the 2009 Webby Awards, and became a Top App of the Year 2009 by the New York Times Gadgetwise. Skyfire is go in Mountain View, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. For more information, www.skyfire.com or follow Skyfire on Twitter attwitter.com / Skyfire.
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