Skyfire, a smartphone browser, is ready for the iPhone and will be submitted for approval to the App Store next week a report said. “It’s by no means official just yet, but a pair of much-trusted little birdies have just informed me that SkyFire has just entered the final testing phase of what they intend to be the first public iPhone build, with plans to submit to Apple early next week,” Greg Kumparak wrote for MobileCrunch.
Skyfire is a mobile web browser for Windows Mobile, Google Android, and Symbian S60. Skyfire comprises two distinct generations of mobile browser technology. In Skyfire’s first generation browser, a web page is fully rendered by a server separate from the mobile device, similar to the operation of a thin client. This approach is also used by Opera Mini. Skyfire’s second generation browser employs a hybrid approach, using a conventional rendering of Web pages on the handheld device, but streaming video from Skyfire’s servers. Flash video, is rendered at Skyfire’s servers, re-encoded as an efficient HTML 5-compatible format, then relayed to the phone.
