"(MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA) May 27, 2009 – Today Skyfire, the makers of the samename PC-like browser for mobile devices, is announcing the launch of its 1.0 version now available for free download at get.skyfire.com. Over one million consumers have installed and used the Skyfire browser in just under five months, making it the fastest growing downloadable mobile browser in North America.This demonstrates the explosive consumer demand for exact-PC like full internet browsing on mobile devices." - From the official press release.
Skyfire 1.0 delivers the PC web, real fast
Skyfire remains committed to providing everything the PC web has to offer in a mobile experience with blazing fast speeds. For the first time, consumers can use their phones to watch any web video and live events, stay connected with friends, share web pages instantly, and use the full-featured PC versions of their favorite websites. Skyfire is the only mobile browser to support popular web standards and plug-ins such as Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Ajax, Javascript and more, so the rich media on websites work on phones just like the PC. Known for its speed, Skyfire launches quickly and loads web pages quicker than other mobile browsers.
Skyfire users can customize the start page with RSS feeds from their favorite websites. In addition, they can integrate their Facebook and Twitter accounts to import status updates and tweets, and easily publish their status to these networks. Skyfire is the only mobile browse to share and publish any web page to Facebook and Twitter networks with one click.
Tucows / Butterscotch are proud to announce the winners of our Video Spokesperson Contest. The response was overwhelming and because it was we increased the number of prizes. Even if you didn't win you can still get a video done by Miss Download, Cheryl Poirer, for 20% off the regular price!
SportyPal for Symbian S60 and UIQ is an easy to use intuitive application for your Nokia or Sony Ericsson mobile phone. You activate it when you start your running, cycling, walking, rollerblading or similar exercise. In two simple clicks it will start to log and map your position, movement, distance, tempo and calories burned. It will not affect normal operation of your Symbian device, so you can still listen to music, receive and initiate calls and messages.
When you finish exercising, the collected performance information will be stored on your mobile. Later you can review it, compare it with other exercises or check your best performance achievements. SportyPal will present each exercise in a map view, draw elegant graphics charts of your performance or present summarized information. SportyPal is intuitively designed to assist you improve your performance in running, cycling, blading, walking, skiing or other workouts involving similar activities.
The real brilliance of SportyPal comes with the web integration. You have a possibility to upload your workouts on the internet with a simple click of a button on your Symbian S60 or UIQ mobile device.
Speedy Go! for Symbian S60 is not a freeware application to be clear, so what it is doing here on this blog? Well this may concern all those who considered buying it, a few thoughts that may or may not change their minds or bring some insight into this peace of software offering device acceleration as the developer describes it:
"Speedy Go! improves the performance of Symbian S60 smartphones by display acceleration and overall speed boost. The provided Speed test feature serves to estimate the normal phone speed and the speed gain achieved by acceleration.
Speedy Go! is compatible with and can provide speed boost on all Symbian S60 smartphones by Nokia, Samsung and LG, including the latest touch-screen devices, like the Nokia 5800 and N97, and the Samsung i8910 (Omnia HD). "
Well we have tested it on Nokia N96 and we must say that it really does work in a way but once you have the phone accellometer turned on for example the auto rotate of the phone display this application slows the phone down.
Site Information
This site contains links to free mobile software downloads, both Java ME applets and Symbian S60 applications. There are twenty-one different categories of mobile programs. Navigation can be found on a left side of the window.
Native S60 applications should work in mobile phones, which have Symbian OS S60 software platform. There are four different versions of S60: Series 60, Series 60 Second Edition, Series 60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition. Versions are not backward compatible, so it is not possible to run 2nd edition applications on 3rd edition device for example. You can find a list of S60 devices and versions at the end of this page.
Java (J2ME) applications should work in phones which have J2ME MIDP support. Most of new phones have J2ME-support.
Here is a list of Symbian S60 devices:
Symbian S60 1st Edition:
Nokia: 3650, 3660, 3620, 3600, 7650, N-Gage, N-Gage QD
Siemens: SX1
Symbian S60 2nd Edition:
Nokia: 3230, 6260, 6600, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, N70, N90
Panasonic: X800, X700
Samsung: SGH-Z600, SGH-D720, SGH-D730
Lenovo: P930
Symbian S60 3rd Edition:
LG: KT615, KT610, KS10
Nokia: 3250, 5320 XpressMusic, 5500 Sport, 5630 XpressMusic, 5700, 5730 XpressMusic, 6110 Navigator, 6120, 6121, 6210 Navigator, 6220, 6290, 6710 Navigator, 6720 Classic, E51, E55, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, E75, E90, N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N78, N79, N80, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N85, N86 8MP, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95, N95 8GB, N96
Samsung: I7110, INNOV8, SGH-G810, SGH-L870, SGH-i400, SGH-i450, SGH-i520, SGH-i550, SGH-i560
Symbian S60 5th Edition:
Nokia: 5800 XpressMusic
Samsung: OMNIA HD
