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Skyfire forums: Calling all Beta users The Skyfire forums are up and running for Beta 1 users. Simply login to Support on our website, and you’ll find the link to the forums. A couple things about our forums:

The forums are available to active users only. You must have a Skyfire account to login to the Skyfire forums. Beta 2 users will join the forums as soon as that program is launched.
When you create your forum account, please use your Skyfire account ID. Your forum account must be created with the same email and password you used to create your Skyfire account.
Our forums are the best place to get your questions answered, file bugs, request features, and give us feedback. Before you file a support ticket via email to us, please look in the forums as you’re likely to find the answer.. If you don’t, please start a thread and share the knowledge.
Our community manager, Cheryl, is our forums moderator. She’s looking forward to creating a vibrant beta community with you. Login today to meet your fellow beta users.

Beta 1: All invitations extendedIf you are in Beta 1, you should have received your invitation to download the Skyfire beta by now. We’ve sent the invitation to download to everyone signed up from January 28 to March 1 with a Windows Mobile phone in the US. That invitation was sent by both

MobileBeat 2008: Vote for SkyfireJune 11

VentureBeat is asking their readers to vote for the best mobile start-ups in 2008. The top 30 will participate at their MobileBeat event on July 24. They are looking for start-ups with bold ideas poised to be grand-slam hits. We’re on the roster and hope Skyfire has your vote.You can vote every day between now and when the voting closes on June 24th.

Series B closed and we’re gearing up for growthMay 30

Speed of light browsing and Lightspeed

On Wednesday, we announced our $13M Series B funding. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round and we’re very excited to have their track record of fueling mobile and consumer innovation on our side. With much enthusiasm, we welcome Jake Seid, Managing Director at Lightspeed, to our Board. We’re also delighted that the round included the continued support from our friends at Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. That’s a lot of enthusiasm in one paragraph, but it’s because with these funds, we’re going to get Skyfire on a significant market share of phones - both here and outside the U.S. We’re on a mission to give you the freedom to browse whatever you want at blazing fast speeds.

Calling all rock stars

With Series B closed, we are gearing up for growth so spread the word and take a look at our job postings. We’re looking for talented web, mobile, server and browser developers as well as product management gurus. Consider yourself an expert in Symbian, Firefox, Windows Mobile, Java apps, tools and analytics, or web services, then contact us at jobs@skyfire.com. Take a look at the Skyfire team - we’re building the best mobile browsing ex

Invites to download Skyfire and your feedbackMay 15

A few updates to share since our last post:

Skyfire Beta 0.5 and 0.55 expired

If you were using Skyfire 0.5 or 0.55, you can still upgrade to Skyfire 0.6 even if you didn’t before these releases expired. Please login to your Skyfire account from our website and select “Download.” From there, you can either select “Send SMS with Link” or “Download to My PC” and you will get the Skyfire 0.6 release. If you try to launch these older releases, you will get a “Lost Network Connection” error message.

Extending Beta 1 invites

We’re continuing to roll out the invites to download the Skyfire beta and your feedback is pouring in. Thanks for participating in our private beta with such enthusiasm. Everyone in Beta 1 (signed up on or before March 1) will get the invitation to download.

Please note that your invitation to download is sent to you by SMS as well as email. Even if your SMS with the download link bounces back to us, you will also receive an email with a link and instructions to download via our website.

Notes about Skyfire 0.6

Thanks for the kudos, suggestions and bug reports. A couple things we want to mention:

Video quality: The video quality you experience on Skyfire will always be relative to your connection speed, and it will be much better on higher speed connections.

Lost network connections: There are several scenarios that trigger this error message. If it’s persistent, a

Skyfire 0.6 released and Beta 1 statusMay 1

We are pleased to let you know that we just released Skyfire Beta 0.6. If you are currently participating in the Skyfire Beta with release 0.5, you’ll want to upgrade and check out the new features and bug fixes. Please don’t delay upgrading because the current Skyfire Beta releases (0.5 and 0.55) will expire on May 7.

What’s new in the 0.6 release?

We tackled some of your most requested features and bug fixes. Here are the highlights:

Multi-line text entry (2,000 character limit)
Auto-complete text entry
Paste into URL or search
Ability to delete bookmarks
Multiple zoom modes for touch screen phones
Double tap Zoom In and Zoom Out
Support for custom virtual keyboards (SIP)
Web search shortcut in softkey menu
Access to the Windows Mobile Taskbar in softkey menu
Persistent settings for SmartFit, Mute and Zoom size
Support for 12-key and 1/2 QWERTY devices
Password masking
Backlight usage based on system settings
OK button sends Skyfire to the background

You can login to your Skyfire account to read the Release Note for 0.6 or access the Quick Start Guide and Online Help.

If you currently have the 0.5 release, here’s how to upgrade

When you launch Skyfire on your phone, you’ll notice the start page has changed and includes a link to “Upgrade Now.” That link takes you to a page to reques