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Remember SkyFire?  We covered their plans to bring their own successful smartphone browser to the iPhone shortly after Opera Mini was approved back in April, but despite the silence since then, there are now reports that SkyFire for the iPhone could be being prepared to undergo the App Store approval process.

Sources spoken to by MobileCrunch say that the app has reached its final series of tests and once they have been completed, it’ll be winging its way to Apple as soon as next week.  Now, SkyFire have been quiet on this so far, but we wouldn’t be surprised if they employed a similar tactic to Opera when they send their browser for approval; that of telling as many people as possible they have done so!

Of course, a third-party browser for the iPhone isn’t anything new, but one of SkyFire’s biggest selling points is Flash 10.1, which almost certainly won’t be allowed into the App Store, so what separates this from the rest?  If the Android version is anything to go by, it’s the SkyBar, which is used for pulling video from sites, a clever search and explore feature that shows results based around your current content, plus a social networking share button.  SkyFire also performs the same trick as Opera Mini and uses server-side compression to allow pages to load quickly.  On Android, this applies to video too, compressing it according to your connection.

Let’s hope next week is a good one for SkyFire.