{"id":4432,"date":"2009-07-01T10:40:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2009-07-01T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:46:11","slug":"skyfire-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/4432\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyfire  Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Skyfire Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/Skyfirelogo.gif\" alt=\"Skyfire Logo\" width=\"163\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems to be raining mobile browser updates.\u00a0 Yesterday Bolt issued a major update\u00a0 and it looks like Skyfire did a bug fix release on Monday.\u00a0 There are quite a few fixes in it.\u00a0 Here are the release notes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 100%;\">Skyfire 1.0 update \u2013 Release Notes (Windows Mobile and Symbian)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Released: June 30, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Since our Skyfire 1.0 launch, we\u2019ve fixed a few bugs and are releasing this new update.  We encourage you to upgrade today by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/get.skyfire.com\">http:\/\/get.skyfire.com<\/a> with your device.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1.0.0.12114 \tSymbian<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1.0.0.12113\tWindows Mobile touch and non-touch<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What\u2019s new in this 1.0 update?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reduced Memory footprint.<\/strong> We reduced the memory footprint of Skyfire for both Symbian and Windows Mobile devices.  This should help folks reporting issues on memory constrained devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fixes in this release<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>History <\/strong>is presented in the proper order.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cookies in the UK data center<\/strong> are handled more reliably.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sharing links via SMS<\/strong> are handled more reliably.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reconnect <\/strong>correctly loads the last page in history plus we\u2019ve improved reliability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Site specific issues<\/strong> have been resolved for Rooftopcommedy.com and thefind.com.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zoom buttons<\/strong> behave properly and disappear after a couple of seconds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Default browser<\/strong> setting works more consistently.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Text entry on Symbian<\/strong> has been improved with one caveat below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Known issues in this release<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Multi-line text entry on Symbian:<\/strong> Skyfire might exit the text entry mode when the user is choosing a word from the predictive text list. Plus, using the down key might NOT get you out of text entry mode.  If this happens, use enter or center OK. Issues 7149 &amp; 7112<\/li>\n<li><strong>Superbar state on Symbian:<\/strong> sometimes when you enter into the superbar with the cursor, existing the Superbar via the \u2018cancel\u2019 option will navigate to the previous page. Issue 7158<\/li>\n<li><strong>Change connection on Symbian:<\/strong> Choosing the search WLAN option might not change the WLAN connection. Issue 6633.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Samsung Jack (AT&amp;T):<\/strong> Because of a security policy on this device, it will not allow uninstall of Skyfire if there is not SIM card in the phone. Simply insert a SIM card.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve installed the new version on my N95-3 without problems.\u00a0 Interestingly, the version number is 1.0.0.12214 rather than the 1.0.0.12114 mentioned in the release notes.\u00a0 Typo or a new silent release? In any case, as expected from the nature of the update, there are no obvious changes.\u00a0 Everything I said in my <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/4065\">Skyfire 1.0 review<\/a> still applies.\u00a0 Skyfire is the best way to watch web videos on a S60 or Windows Mobile phones, but the tiny fonts at the default zoom level make it less pleasant for sites that are mainly text.<\/p>\n<p>The reduced memory footprint should allow this version to run on phones like the N73 that didn&#8217;t have enough RAM to work with Skyfire 1.0. Elsewhere on the web; <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kiyo21\">@kiyo21<\/a> reports that pasting text from the system clipboard into the &#8220;Enter URL&#8221; field now works on S60.\u00a0 I can confirm that.\u00a0 A commenter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutsymbian.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=85330\">All About Symbian <\/a>noted that entering text in web forms seems slower in the new version.\u00a0 It IS slow although I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s any worse than before.\u00a0 Skyfire users, what are your experiences with this upgrade?<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/4065\">Skyfire 1.0 Reviewed<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/2934\">Skyfire 0.9 \u2013 WVGA Support, Twitter and Facebook Integration<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/1943\">Skyfire Browser Beta 0.85 for S60 \u2013 Full Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be raining mobile browser updates.\u00a0 Yesterday Bolt issued a major update\u00a0 and it looks like Skyfire did a bug fix release on Monday.\u00a0 There are quite a few fixes in it.\u00a0 Here are the release notes. Skyfire 1.0 update \u2013 Release Notes (Windows Mobile and Symbian) Released: June 30, 2009 Since our Skyfire 1.0 launch, we\u2019ve fixed a few bugs and are releasing this new update. We encourage you to upgrade today by going to http:\/\/get.skyfire.com with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/4432\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4437,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}