Skyfire purchases Steel Android browser from kolbysoft
Feb 11, 2010
In a bit of an Android browser shake-up, Skyfire — best known for its Windows Mobile browser — has purchased kolbysoft, which produces the popular Webkit-based Steel browser. For the time being, Steel will remain in production until Skyfire tools up its own Android product.
The main difference in the current Skyfire browser is that all of the heavy lifting — as in the actual rendering of a Web page — is done on Skyfire’s servers and then beamed out to your phone. That results in much quicker load times, means you’re able to load just about any content you can think of — including Flash — and really just not worry about things. Well, except for you tinfoil hat security types out there. [via MocoNews]
