Skyfire Browser Launches in the UK

Skyfire has announced the availability of its mobile browser in the UK. Skyfire claims that the browser is the only mobile browser that makes browsing on a mobile phone just like browsing on a PC.
Skyfire enables users to access and interact with any website built with any Internet technology, including dynamic Flash, advanced Ajax, Silverlight, Java and more at the same speeds they are accustomed to on their PC. Skyfire is free to download.
Skyfire includes numerous features aimed at simplifying the mobile browsing experience. For example, when a user conducts a web search from the home page, Skyfire pulls results from Google and displays the results in multiple tabs that consumers can easily navigate. In addition, users can bookmark specific locations on a website to get to the content that matters most to them in one click. Users can share any website and send it to friends by SMS with a URL short enough to easily fit the text message. Skyfires user interface features full screen navigation, thumbnail views and zooming to seamlessly resize the content to fit the mobile screen.
Consumers in the UK have been promised the real web on their phone real fast only to be disappointed by slow rendering, no Flash support, error messages, watered down WAP pages or second-rate mobile versions of their favorite site, says Skyfire CEO, Nitin Bhandari. Skyfire has remedied those ills at a speed not seen before on the mobile platform. By extending the PC web experience to mobile phones, we are fundamentally changing the way people use their phones. Our US and Canadian beta users can attest to that, and now the UK has the same opportunity to get the PC web on the go.
Since launching its beta in the US, Skyfire says it has broken down the two primary barriers for Internet adoption on Smartphones speed and user experience. Skyfire users do not have to change their web browsing behaviour on their mobile phones because Skyfire allows them to access the same content, and interact with that content, exactly as they do on their PC. When users load their favorite sites, they will not encounter unrecognizable content, unfamiliar page layouts, or missing content, the company says.
We are fully committed to user experience and speed. In fact, so much so that we have opened a data center in the UK to ensure that consumers there have the best Skyfire performance and experience, says Bhandari. Weve also customized the Skyfire start pages for the UK consumer to include their most popular websites, like the BBC, Bebo, eBay and Amazon.
Bhandari adds that prior to launching in the UK, the company ensured that Skyfire runs on the most popular Nokia E or N Series phones that are so prevalent in the UK.
Were excited to give these UK Nokia users an iPhone-like browsing experience, but even better with Flash supported and unmatched speeds, he says.
Theres a list of the phones that Skyfire runs on  here.  And you can download Skyfire at get.skyfire.com from your PC or mobile browser.