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Quick Shot: Skyfire vs. Opera Mobile

Skyfire is a relative newcomer to the Windows Mobile browser scene. After lingering in a US only beta for what seems like over a year, the folks at skyfire.com have finally spread their wings, at least to Canada and the UK. What Skyfire promises (and delivers on) is a browser with Flash support built in, for both video and Flash animations. This is a quick speed test comparing Skyfire with the excellent Opera Mobile 9.5, with some sample in-browser Flash playback, using an HTC Touch 400MHz phone. Rendering speeds between…

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rgb Filter Episode 004 – Ryanitis – Show Notes

Episode 004 of rgb Filter is in the can, and available at your friendly neighbourhood series of tubes. In this show, Ryan joins us as a brand new co-host. We also talk Canadian smartphone data rate updates, and the announcement of Opera Mobile 9.5 beta coming July 15th. http://my.opera.com/operamobile/blog/2008/07/07/leave-no-platform-behind ATI’s new cards force NVidia to lower prices, while Nvida announces the availability of it’s new CUDA SDK, allowing programmers to use the power of GPUs for non-graphics purposes. Xandros buys Linspire – is it a bid to keep their EEE…

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