SkyFire for iPhone now available

Greg Kumparak

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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

After a two month journey, the SkyFire browser’s seemingly endless voyage onto the App Store has come to a successful end. After word got out yesterday that they’d got the green light from Apple, we figured it’d show up sometime in the next day or two — sure enough, it just went live.

Haven’t been paying attention, and are now wondering what all the hubbubs about? Here’s the trick: SkyFire can play Flash video. Sort of. It’s actually converting Flash video into an iPhone-friendly format through some server-side trickery. The solution has its ups and downs (see our early hands-on here), but it’s definitely worth checking out [iTunes Link].

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