You can be sure that the irony of Skyfire launching their Skyfire 2.0 Flash-happy browser for Android within hours of Steve Jobs taking Adobe to task over Flash being unsuitable for mobile devices will be well noted, but don’t let that distract you from just what’s on offer here.  The big news is the new “SkyBar”, which throws in automatic Flash video streaming for otherwise broken video links, together with social networking integration.

The browser doesn’t actually play Flash videos as such – it uses a remote server to convert them, on the fly, to HTML5 and other formats that mobile devices are happier streaming.  So, if you come across a YouTube link, for instance, you can hit the video button and choose Skyfire’s version instead, watching it in the browser rather than having to use a standalone YouTube app or wait until you’re on your desktop.

There’s also the usual multitouch gestures and tabbed browsing, and there’s simple integration with Twitter, Facebook, Buzz and other social networking services.