Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Artefact 2: Research

To understand Skyfire more in depth i have researched into the development of its existence. From what i can gather, Skyfire is dedicated to leveraging the power of cloud computing, redefining mobile browsing on smartphones. Skyfire was founded in April 2006 and is located in Mountain View, California in the heart of Silicon Valley. The company is funded by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. Even though they state they are funded via these companies, i found out from (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/feb/19/startups-mobilephones ) that they record your browsing habits. This could be an issue with privacy of surfing the web.

Pros:

Supports Flash
Faster loading of webpages
Able to render websites to support browser


Cons:

No voice control
Freezes alot



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