{"id":519700,"date":"2010-04-07T16:14:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"9147 at http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com"},"modified":"2010-04-07T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:14:22","slug":"skyfire-chooses-30-beta-testers-from-3000-applicants-talks-up-webkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519700","title":{"rendered":"Skyfire chooses 30 beta testers from 3,000 applicants, talks up Webkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/sites\/androidcentral.com\/files\/articleimage\/Phil%20Nickinson\/2010\/04\/Skyfire.png\" alt=\"Skyfire browser\" class=\"lightbox2\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Skyfire this afternoon shed a little light on where it&#8217;s headed in the future with Android. You&#8217;ll recall that the mobile browser company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/skyfire-purchases-steel-android-browser-kolbysoft\">recently bought Kolbysoft<\/a> &#8212; maker of the popular Steel browser for Android &#8212; and even more recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/skyfire-browser-coming-android\">sought beta testers<\/a>. Some 3,000 applications were received, and the lucky 30 testers have been notified. As for the future of Android &#8212; and Webkit, thanks to the purchase of Kolbysoft, Skyfire says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">We see Android as a fast-rising ecosystem, with a rich, totally open developer environment, a healthy app market and a healthy advertising and search ecosystem.  The Android OS has a tremendous amount of interest from handset makers and carriers, and also has a strong need for making the explosion of video more network optimized (Skyfire&rsquo;s wheelhouse).<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">The bigger picture is that Webkit based smartphone browsers are  proliferating, and we are aligning in that technology direction. We see  a lot of need to make these browsers better, and believe that our cloud  platform can be the answer. We&rsquo;re looking at other Webkit platforms  beyond Android already, and will share more information when we feel  it&rsquo;s appropriate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">If you&#8217;re one of the lucky few how got in on the beta, congrats. We&#8217;re all looking for good stuff to come out of the Skyfire camp. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyfire.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/android-blackberry-and-beyond\/\">Skyfire<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?a=4N8njqq-fWM:MkpZ0kVwkI0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?a=4N8njqq-fWM:MkpZ0kVwkI0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?i=4N8njqq-fWM:MkpZ0kVwkI0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?a=4N8njqq-fWM:MkpZ0kVwkI0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/androidcentral\/~4\/4N8njqq-fWM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skyfire this afternoon shed a little light on where it&#8217;s headed in the future with Android. 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