Friday, June 25, 2010

Skyfire 2.1 available for Android: Flash to HTML5

The publisher Skyfire announced the availability of its mobile browser in version 2.1 for smartphones running Android. Skyfire now take care of posting videos in Flash and have passed the 500 mark 000 users.

750 000 additional sites compatible, that is the figure announced by skyfire in launching this new version capable of playing video clips in Flash format. Remember that with Skyfire, the videos are transcoded files compatible with HTML5 and optimized for display on mobile devices, the process is conducted on company servers. This would result in "a reading faster and more fluid with less load times, fewer jumps and a better image cycle battery.

Skyfire said in a statement that through testing, users watched twice more videos from their mobile battery with a gain of about 30% compared to the native integration of Flash Player. In arguing that most flash videos are designed for a computer monitor and a broadband Internet connection, the Skyfire team said its technology is adaptable to mobile Internet connections to return better performance.

To download skyfire 2.1 beta, go to the Android Market.

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