Skyfire S60 Upgraded to v1.10.13041 – Still Sucks Badly

October 31st, 2009 | Posted by asri | View Comments

1. Telling the whole world you are developing a “desktop-like” internet browser for mobiles, is just pure marketing gimmick.

2. It’s been more than a year now since Skyfire was first released to the public. It was terrible but over the months, it improves gradually.

3. However, it is still far from perfect. Let alone usable.

4. There are some really good ideas implemented. I really like the home screen. It’s socialised and very configurable.

5. The bookmarks & history manager is also very good and has a lot of things inside.

6. However, the rendering is very-very bad. I am using WiFi at home. S60 Web works without problem but Skyfire really has a lot of things to do… Scrolling on pages will produce this checkerboard. All the time…

7. There is no connection manager to define how Skyfire connects to the internet. It uses the default internet connection of the phone. And it always disconnected.

8. I am able to view Youtube videos but the framerate is bad. Like watching a slideshow…

9. And it is really a memory hog! Running Skyfire kills everything else. I only open i-symbian.com frontpage and the free RAM is only 4MB… Skyfire took almost 20MB to operate! I cant believe it. This must be the most RAM hungry application I have tested…

10. To the Skyfire team, get your acts together please… Dont promise heaven and earth to your potential customers.

11. No thanks. I will stick to Opera Mini 4.2 for the time being.

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  • http://adam-jackson.net adamjackson

    Good afternoon. This is Adam Jackson with Skyfire and I’d like to help you out and address some of the issues you’ve experienced on your S60.

    First of all, let me say sorry for the problems you’ve had. I’d like to work with you and this may not be the proper venue to actually resolve these issues.

    Yes there are improvements we can make to the device and experience for our users. I’d like to suggest that it would be a better medium to add your feedback to our forums so someone from skyfire can actually help you resolve these issues.

    http://support.skyfire.com/forums/

  • http://www.skyfire.com/ Adam Jackson

    Good afternoon. This is Adam Jackson with Skyfire and I’d like to help you out and address some of the issues you’ve experienced on your S60.

    First of all, let me say sorry for the problems you’ve had. I’d like to work with you and this may not be the proper venue to actually resolve these issues.

    Yes there are improvements we can make to the device and experience for our users. I’d like to suggest that it would be a better medium to add your feedback to our forums so someone from skyfire can actually help you resolve these issues.

    http://support.skyfire.com/forums/

  • http://www.i-symbian.com asri

    @Adam Jackson,

    1. Thanks for stopping by and commented here.

    2. I will participate in your forum and give my feedback.

    3. And I will also continue writing my thoughts about Skyfire.

    4. Honestly, you guys have some good & cool ideas. Maybe the way it is implemented need somemore refinement.

    5. The biggest issue right now in my opinion, are the RAM, the checkerboard, the rendering, and the connection manager. Everything else are minor IMHO.

    6. You guys did excellent in designing the Skyfire Home Screen. That is one of the things you should maintain.

    8-)

    Cheers!

    Asri al-Baker

  • http://www.i-symbian.com Asri al-Baker

    @Adam Jackson,

    1. Thanks for stopping by and commented here.

    2. I will participate in your forum and give my feedback.

    3. And I will also continue writing my thoughts about Skyfire.

    4. Honestly, you guys have some good & cool ideas. Maybe the way it is implemented need somemore refinement.

    5. The biggest issue right now in my opinion, are the RAM, the checkerboard, the rendering, and the connection manager. Everything else are minor IMHO.

    6. You guys did excellent in designing the Skyfire Home Screen. That is one of the things you should maintain.

    8-)

    Cheers!

    Asri al-Baker

  • http://adam-jackson.net adamjackson

    Hi. Yes just one more reply to say thanks.

    There are always performance improvements but in our effort to make the experience very rich for the user and similar to the desktop, ram is one of those limiting factors.

    Personally I’m a bit confused by the connection manager issues but please if you find time add these to our forums because team members much smarter than I can respond and possibly resolve things for you.

    Have a great day and please continue offering feedback.

  • http://www.skyfire.com/ Adam Jackson

    Hi. Yes just one more reply to say thanks.

    There are always performance improvements but in our effort to make the experience very rich for the user and similar to the desktop, ram is one of those limiting factors.

    Personally I’m a bit confused by the connection manager issues but please if you find time add these to our forums because team members much smarter than I can respond and possibly resolve things for you.

    Have a great day and please continue offering feedback.

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