last100 » SkyFire http://www.last100.com Tracking the digital lifestyle Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:31:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Video demo: SkyFire’s S60 mobile web browser accessing Hulu and YouTube http://www.last100.com/2008/11/24/video-demo-skyfires-s60-mobile-web-browser-accessing-hulu-and-youtube/ http://www.last100.com/2008/11/24/video-demo-skyfires-s60-mobile-web-browser-accessing-hulu-and-youtube/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:06:15 +0000 Steve O'Hear http://www.last100.com/?p=3231 In my first attempt at a video demo — something I hope to do a lot more of — I’ve been putting SkyFire’s new mobile web browser through its paces, running on my S60-powered Nokia e71. What sets SkyFire apart from other mobile browsers, the company claims, is its ability to display the web in its full desktop glory, including Flash, Quicktime and AJAX-heavy content. To achieve this, web pages are processed by the company’s own proxy servers before being served up on the phone.

Check out my video demo after the jump, in which I try visiting last100 (Flash ads included), a page with a YouTube video embedded, and more ambitiously, the online video site Hulu — it played but was out of sync. I also tried accessing the web version of BBC iPlayer, but due to SkyFire’s use of a proxy server, I was blocked from accessing the UK-only service as it presumably thought I resided outside the country…

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