SkyFire Beta in the UK

Mobile browsers although not as many as desktop browsers are numerous these days. Once you've got your smartphone platform you often have a choice of at least two mobile browers to choose from be it the built-in browser (S60 Web, Pocket IE (shudder) or Mobile Safari), Opera Mobile or Mini to name a few. Those in the US have also enjoyed the benefit of a recent addition to the proxy based browsers called SkyFire. The difference between SkyFire and say Opera Mini, is that SkyFire allows you to watch almost any type of web video (including YouTube and iPlayer) and access almost all the sites that you would with a browser on your PC. SkyFire provides support for Java, Silverlight, AJAX and Flash which is a pretty comprehensive set for a mobile browser. Now UK users have been allowed into the public beta program that has been running for some time. The browser and service is free and if you have a data plan built into your contract this is certainly one of the best and fastest ways to view the web on your small screen.

Currently SkyFire supports most Windows Mobile and Symbian phones with greater support coming in the future. So if you're still trying to use S60 web or Pocket IE then this might be the browser to ease your troubles. Free to download here.