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Skyfire Beta on Windows Mobile 6

2008-02-27
launching skyfire takes a couple seconds it's connecting through Wi-Fi and here's the start page you see a row of icons at the top unlabeled so we don't really know what they do the bottom right we see a menu tap that we got a menu some options let's try clicking on one of these websites to that work we don't know seems to be doing something not really it's no stop button also note there's no Start menu so I can't multitask there's no minimize button so I can't close this and go to another program so no cloth there's no connection status so I'm going to know if I'm connected there's no volume control if I press buttons hardware button start menu doesn't work ok button doesn't work power button doesn't work and this seems to be stuck now it's loading something there we go you can see the whole page is some doubt and some possible to reading these things let's go to however YouTube does work my audio must be off but you can see the video is playing panting doesn't seem to be very good difficult to get the video interview maybe if we zoom out let's go to different page so here's another feature that should be turned on by default and doesn't stay on the smart fit option to do this it will reload the page and there we go it reacts the type into an area that will fit in your zoom we can zoom there we go so now this is much easier to read there's no scroll bar so I can't exactly jump to the bottom of page or and I can't flick it just have to move it manually by panning you can see it loads the page is pixels so that the painting is quicker and then renders the rest of it as you that's the bandwidth allows pressing the refresh button actually zooms out all the way it's kind of a well maybe not so quick but an easier way to see the whole page again entering addresses you type you press this button and then you see the address bar down here and since the lower bar is a non-standard user interface we have no way of choosing different keyboards so say I'd type something it doesn't actually put it into the address bar so that's a really work there's also no tap and hold menu so I can't paste the URL here I can't copy the URL so it's kind of limited and what you can do with this there's also an option drag controls now I just turn that on but you didn't see anything happen so when I drag this toolbar comes up if I select the arrow now my dragon will select text but still there's no tap and hold button there's nothing I can do with it there's no copy there's a pace so nothing i can do that button collapses the menus so you can see the whole page without any administrative debris however I will kind of prefer some debris user interface elements that I can switch applications with because right now I can't multitask well I guess that's all
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