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An update to my August 07 post on mobile browsing proxies, adding Skyfire:
In January 2008 Skyfire launched, currently in private beta and showing videos of their demo. Based on the open source Gecko engine from Mozilla (which powers Firefox), Skyfire claims to handle all web content, even video and dynamic pages. The client software on the phone is written in a native language (e.g. C++) for performance reasons; it doesn't work on today's MIDP mobile Java platforms that are used by Opera Mini, Teashark, and others. The promise of a full browser solution with all the heavy processing done on the server is exciting, but would of course require enormous server capacity to handle tens of millions of users.