Earlier today, Skyfire announced that it was halting its private Alpha program for the BlackBerry. The decision was made after the program was leaked by a participant who was under NDA.
Our intention with this Alpha was to get some early feedback under NDA with a limited number of BlackBerry Bold users – all under NDA during this early dev phase. We know that we have lots more work ahead of us, so we intentionally limited the number of participants as well as the development to the Bold model. Needless to say, this leak was not conducive to the intent of our Alpha.
It appears that the leaked alpha has traveled far already. It was used on Curves, Storms and other BlackBerry models for which this alpha version was not intended.
In a communication to the alpha testers, Skyfire indicated that a new build would be ready in a few weeks. Until then, the servers will be unavailable and the current application will not work.