Apple’s deigned to let Skyfire, an iOS browser that transcodes Flash videos into iPhone-friendly HTML5 on the fly, into the App Store, and it’s available in the US now. In my testing it worked pretty darn well. Yup, porntubes on the iPhone.
Other iterations of Skyfire have been known to be clunky, but their new $US3 app works as advertised: when you come across a site with a Flash video element, it’ll send that video out to its servers, transcode it into iPhone-friendly HTML5, and pipe it back to your iPhone. It takes 10 seconds or so to get itself situated, but once it does, the videos look pretty good. Skyfire’s magic doesn’t work with Flash games or Flash apps, or some premium sites like Hulu, but for the most part you’ll be able to get at all the Flash video you come across while browsing, or the Flash videos you discover with the built-in Skybar feature. $US3 in the US App Store only. [iTunes]
Sean
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 8:37 AMSo far for me, its a fail… 2 videos popped up to convert and play, 1 failed, the other had no sound.
Roland
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 9:24 AMHow long before the minions in Australia can get it??
matt
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 10:43 AMlol, $3 for functionality you should get for free.
Adam
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 11:42 AMPornhub and all those porn tube sites have always worked with iphone
johnny
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 12:51 PM95% failure on my iphone 4
but i like the idea, waiting for the improvement
5318008
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 3:30 PMI hope they burn on this one. 1.5 worked perfect on WM and Nokia, but they’ve cancelled support for those platforms so the app doesn’t work except on iOS and Android now. Fkkkkkers.