What Skyfire’s Symbian beta means for Opera

July 31st, 2008 | Category: Phones

On Thursday, mobile browser start-up Skyfire announced the opening of a private beta for the Symbian Series 60 (S60) platform–nearly a week after a Symbian site busted the news.

Skyfire is positioned as a resource-light browser that relies on Web servers to deliver a desktop browsing experience. I covered Skyfire soon after its initial

Windows Mobile release and agree that it has a nice design and good potential; however, with rendering and crashing issues, it’s not nearly ready for open beta. That’s too poor considering adding an identical build for Symbian means that Skyfire has two platforms in private beta with some tall performance hurdles to leap.