Back in April, Skyfire was looking for Alpha users of its mobile browser. Now after that phase has been done with, Skyfire for the Blackberry announces its beta phase, oozing with enhancements from the previous alpha version.

Among the expected enhancements for the Skyfire Beta version include new keyboard shortcuts and the “Switch to Skyfire” option which is similar to the multi-tabbed browsing we see from Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Other features for the beta version include:

• Text Entry in Thumbnail view
• Contextual zoom with Camera Corners

While the Skyfire browser seems to show a lot of improvements from the alpha release, users are warned that it is still not perfect. Errors and slow performance are still being debugged so don’t set your expectations too high.

(Source) Softpedia

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Gmail is a great email solution for both your computer and your mobile phone, but I guess you already knew that. And Gmail Mobile has just been upgraded! Google added two important features: address auto-complete and keyboard shortcuts which will help you send emails even faster. The upgrade is available for iPhone OS 2.2.1 or higher and Android phones at this time and only U.S. English is currently supported. Hopefully Google will add these features for other mobile operating systems but in the mean time if you have an iPhone/iPod touch or Android-based device, you’ll be able to enjoy the new Gmail Mobile version.

via Appscout

Tags: Android, Auto-complete, gmail, Google, iPhone, iPod Touch, keyboard shortcuts, Mobile News, Portable Devices