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Skyfire brings the PC internet experience to your mobile phone. Watch videos on YouTube and Hulu, connect with your friends via Facebook and Twitter, catch up with gossip and news on the net, shop on Amazon, or listen to music. If you can experience it on your computer, you can now do it with Skyfire on the go.

Skyfire 0.9 Beta supports all regular screen resolutions available for Windows Mobile devices, from 240×240 to, QVGA (320×240, 240×320), WQVGA (400×240), VGA (640×480) and WVGA ( 800×480). The Symbian client has been enhanced to be more lightweight, easier to install and support in addition to 240×320 as well the 352×416 screen resolution (N80 type phones).

What’s new in 0.9 for both Windows Mobile and Symbian:

• We’re Going Social: Our start page experience is brand spanking new and includes feeds, Facebook and Twitter integration. Catch up with news and your friends postings, easily share info and make yourself heard with few clicks.
• Improved Text Readability: We implemented a great solution to improve the readability of large text areas (think blogs and news articles) on small screens. We automatically adapt the font size for large articles in a way that once you zoom into the article you will be able to read it without the need for horizontal scroll. Use our contextual zoom function to fit the article to your screen width and it will make a pleasant reading experience.
• Widescreen screen support: Many recent Windows Mobile devices including the Samsung i900
  Omnia or the Sony Ericsson Experia X1 now use a widescreen format. Skyfire 0.9 Beta fully supports the widescreen format. On Symbian, we now support the 352×416 resolution such as the Nokia N80.
• Improved Superbar: When you select one of the auto-suggest entries you will immediately get more refined suggestions (instead of launching the search right away). Handy to search for the exact term that you are looking for.
• Download Media: Now you can see/listen to media that is accessible in Skyfire, and download it to your phone as well. Found an audio file? Listen to it in Skyfire – you like it? Download it to your phone. Obviously this works only for freely accessible files. For Windows Mobile, we even launch the media player for formats such as Windows Media Streaming audio. Now you can stream radio in the background while continuing to browse.
• Updated page rendering: We updated our algorithm to improve the consistency of the information shown. In addition we improved the zoom action, which provides a quicker response.
• Updated Plug-ins: Including Flash 10, Silverlight 2.0 final and newest Quicktime version.

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