After downloading the CAB directly onto my BJ2 via Opera Mobile, I installed the program and launched it right away. It prompted me for the Email address and password I used to register as part of the beta program. It immediately returned with a message that a data connection to skyfire was lost, and promptly exited for me.

I restarted the browser from the start menu, and the program takes a handful of seconds to load (slower than Opera Mobile in my experience), but loaded a home page once it started up.

The biggest annoyance so far is that a hand icon pointer follows your navigation when you move over a link. Since I'm not used to seeing a mouse pointer on the screen, it looks very out of place.

It starts out with a menu system of prebuilt bookmarks, and I selected CNN. It took about 9 seconds to load the page, but loaded the entire desktop page for CNN at a highly zoomed-out size to fit the entire page on my little 320x240 screen. Moving the dwheel around, a square box (which I'm sure represents my 320x240 pixel viewing area) appears with a magnifying glass icon. I select an area, and sure enough it zooms me in on that part of the page.

For kicks I tried youtube.com and was impressed to see the flash player in Skyfire very functional. Unfortunately, being zoomed in to 320x240 is smaller than the flash player on youtube. Thankfully there's a zoom feature ... press 1 for zoom out, 3 for zoom in. The amount of zoom steps was annoying, and scrolling around for links was horrible.

In the time it took to write that last paragraph, my BJ2 reported that my connection to Skyfire was lost (error 023_2001), and forced me to exit the browser.

Overall, a bad first experience.