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Skyfire App for iPhone Sells Out

Skyfire, an iPhone application that has become a favorite of mobile web surfers, has officially “sold out” according to the company behind it.

Skyfire announced last night that it had officially withdrawn the Skyfire app from Apple’s iTunes App Store due to an overloading of their servers. Used to transcode Flash content, not playable on Apple devices, into HTML5, the app gives iPhone users the ability to view content not officially supported by Apple as per Steve Jobs’ ongoing battle with Adobe. That transcoding is a server-heavy process, meaning that Skyfire will need to add the technology necessary to support its fast-growing user-base.

No re-release date was offered by the official announcement did say that a new “batch” of apps would be available again soon, indicating that the company plans to continue to play catch-up, at least for the near-future.

Skyfire Beta For Blackberry

SkyFireSkyfire, the popular mobile browser, has now entered beta status for its Blackberry incarnation. The previous alpha version worked but failed to offer many features that are now available in the beta including keyboard shortcuts, using Skyfire as the default browser and improving zooming functions.

Skyfire’s popularity grew in large part due to its price (free) and its support of things like Flash 10, JavaScript, Silverlight, AJAX and media formats like Quicktime. The Blackberry beta can be installed by visiting skyfire.com on the device itself.