A beta version of the promising new we browser Skyfire has been released for s60 phones.
The browser first surfaced as a Windows Mobile app. The Symbian version is available as a private beta to people signed up via the Skyfire website.
The browser claims to offer a full ‘desktop’ browsing experience, with full support for AJAX (e.g. javascript), Flash, Quicktime and Windows Media files.
With Firefox for Symbian seemingly relegated to the back burner (at least until the newly open-sourced Symbian OS sparks developers into life) Skyfire might be the only real challenger to Opera’s title of Most Half-Decent Mobile Web Browser tht Isn’t On An iPhone.
Beta signups are still open, .
Sprite Software are seeking beta testers for their new SMS archiving software, Sprite Archie.
Archie runs in the background on your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device and periodically trawls through incoming and outgoing SMS messages and sends an archive to a specified email address.
Archie will also optionally archive your call history, logging the numbers and times of incoming and outgoing calls.
At this point you might be thinking, “Hang on, the CIA and the Freemasons monitor all my calls anyway, why would I want to help them out?” but if you have ever lost a texted address or meeting invite, or think it might be useful to receive an email reminder to follow up a missed call ,then you might want to give it a try.
The beta can be downloaded here, and Sprite are offering free authentication codes to any tester who supplies feedback.
