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Skyfire Web Browser Looking for S60 Beta Testers

0 replies · 2,939 views · Started 28 July 2008

Skyfire have started a closed beta for their replacement S60 Browser that promises to "make browsing on your phone exactly like browsing on your PC." A big promise, and one that many have sought to make. They are still a touch hesitant on the details, but with phrases like "brand new architecture that's server assisted. It's an asymmetric distributed approach where the server does the heavy lifting so the client is high performing" it is probably safe to assume that we're looking at a proxy based approach, similar to that of Opera Mini.

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