My favorite S60 App is Skyfire, the browser that enables me to replace my computer with my mobile phone and have full access to the web. When I first got the Nokia 5800, I tried to install Skyfire; and it installed but was impossible to use without hardware keys. And today that I got the Nokia N97, I can confirm that Skyfire works in the Nokia N97! I installed Skyfire right away on my N97, and I was very surprised to see it working. Unfortunately, although Skyfire is very usable in the N97, it does not work 100%. You can use the D-Pad and the QWERTY keyboard to type and navigate the websites, the browser itself works pretty well too, all the sites show correctly and Skyfire zooms at the correct size of the N97s screen; what is completely unusable are the ”Back” and ”Menu” options that are activated with the right and left softkey of 3rd Ed devices, but good news are, that you can still navigate and use Skyfire just as you would in a compatible device.
Installing Skyfire in your Nokia N97 is very easy, just go to get.skyfire.com and download the app, install even if says is not compatible. Remember that the sofkeys don’t work, so use the d-pad and press center to jump all the notices at the begining of the installation. Any problem, just leave a comment.
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So what’s better about Skyfire over the N97’s built-in browser?
More details than “PC-like experience” please.
Skyfire is the only mobile web browser that lets you have the whole web, every player, song, codec, video, it lets you see Flash 10 content, silverlight, AJAX, Java and all the plugins that are not available for the S60 browser. Its like a desktop web browser, you should really try it
what about the 1 million 5800 users waiting for Skyfire?
I think about the same, but Skyfire says its looking forward to the S60 5th Ed, I asked them
Thanks for all your info and the work you are doing.
Like you, Skyfire was my favourite app for the N96 by far, and I was initially devastated to find it was not supported on the N97. Again, like you, I installed the S60 v3 version anyway, ignored the ‘not compatible’ notice and found it worked – well at least nearly worked. Since the menu key is out of use my only problem is getting from one web page to another! At least I can view sites as they were meant to be viewed – including all types of videos etc.
Yeah, its nice that it partially works. I think they are working on the new version
can someone please tell me or give me the cheapest link to buy the NOKIA N97 on Pay As You Go. I found out on internet that three.co.uk selling at £319 however according to three itself they don’t have any clue to such a deal. Instead they informed me that its £369 on pay as you go but locked to three.
I have done as others with this on my N97, however when I run it I’m stuck at the license… I can’t accept or even cancel out of it. Nothing works. I have to just kill the app running.
Any ideas?
Press the center button from the dpad
Anybody get Justin TV working with this on the N97? Page loads up, but vid screen remains black – if I middle click, a poker pop up starts and of course, you can’t navigate back. Help?
Use skyfire fully:
to access the left and right keys, just install VirtualKeys and reprogram the green and red send and hangup keys to be the left and right buttond snf Voila!
Believe it or not, you wont miss the keys and even better, they tend to act as they should on phone conversations, since Virtual keys seems not to affect at those chores.
Good luck.
nokia rocks!
Good tip Alex! Thanks
its cooooooooooool thanks
It really doesn’t work very fine! Have you any other solution?
Not really, the app is not made to work on the N97 so this is already too much. We will have to wait for a touch Skyfire!
wat abt clearing cache n all dat setting stuff?
When is the skyfire for series60 v5 expected to come?
My problem is that it does not connect, keeps saying ‘acquiring data connection’ and then ‘connecting’ and just flashes between the two. I should really untick the option in the menu to not remember the last connection but without a working menu button, how can i get in there?
i want skyfire for yhe nokia n97 thank you
umm..how do i close the app?
Long press menu button, long press skyfire icon: exit
please tell how can i by skyfire for n97 ,and how much i pay
I’ve got it working, but the only use I really have for a partially-functioning browser is for streaming internet radio, which my other browsers won’t do. It works for about 5-10 minutes before the browser crashes, which doesn’t really make it practical solution.
Anyone else have a solution or recommendations for this? Any word on when Skyfire S60v5 will release?
I’ve n97 mini, but it stopped at license agreement…how to go on?
I can’t remember how I got it installed. I remember getting stuck at the license agreement too, but I think I just kept pressing buttons until something worked and the agreement was accepted.
I don’t know how much use it will be to you. Like I said, streaming audio seems to be its only real advantage over the built-in browser or something like Opera. It’s otherwise just too clunky with the N97 to use otherwise.
Press the center key
helal sana
can you teach me how to download the skyfire on n97 coz it does not work