Posted by boy.in.PINK
Good Monday morning Esatonians! Just this midnight, Bitstream Inc. releases their mobile web browser for Java phones (namely,
's A200 platform), BOLT 2.1.
Press release:
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With tabbed browsing, video support and social network integration, the second generation of the acclaimed BOLT browser enables handset manufacturers and mobile operators to deliver the best Internet user experience to all categories of mobile devices
MARLBOROUGH, Massachusetts – May 24, 2010 – Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced commercial availability of the second generation of its acclaimed BOLT™ mobile browser. BOLT 2.1 marks the completion of beta testing on the most fully featured browser available for mobile phones of all types. Among BOLT 2.1’s new features are tighter integration with Facebook, support for HTML5 video and several new Flash video streaming websites.
BOLT 2.1’s advanced integration with Facebook– by far the most popular domain visited by BOLT users around the world – includes the ability to use Facebook’s instant messaging service and to seamlessly copy text or links and post them to a Facebook account directly from within the BOLT browser. The most important new feature of BOLT 2.1 is tabbed browsing – giving people the ability to simultaneously browse multiple websites and easily switch between them – this functionality was a top request from BOLT users. With BOLT 2.1, Bitstream has expanded streaming video support to include mtv.com, nick.com, bbc.co.uk (UK), maniatv.com, svtplay.se (Sweden), hungama.com (India) and bollywoodhungama.com (India). Additional notable upgrades in BOLT 2.1 include a faster widget gallery with updated user interface and a server upgrade to WebKit 4.03, keeping BOLT up-to-date with the latest web standards.
The free consumer version of BOLT, available on mobile Java (J2ME) devices, has been downloaded nearly 7 million times since its debut in February 2009. Over the the past few months, more than thirty-thousand users installed the consumer version of BOLT each day, while additional people began using pre-installed versions of BOLT on newly-available devices from Bitstream’s OEM partners in Asia and Eastern Europe.
The BOLT mobile browser is engineered to run on mobile phones of all types, from low-end feature phones to high-end smartphones. BOLT has been installed on 1,000s of different handset models running on hundreds of networks worldwide. BOLT is the only major WebKit-based cloud computing browser and is built to deliver a PC-like browsing experience on mobile phones. Its small package, easy integration and comprehensive feature set make it ideal for handset manufacturers and mobile network operators to offer the best possible Internet experience for users of the widest range of mobile device categories. Co-branding and white labeling opportunities make BOLT especially attractive to OEMs and mobile network operators who will benefit from BOLT’s many advantages, including:
OEMs:
· Can offer more appealing product lines to operators with mobile devices that provide full-featured browsing, multimedia, widgets and advanced social networking support on all levels of mobile devices.
· BOLT’s WebKit based cloud-computing architecture enables efficient use of on-device resources.
· BOLT is presently available in J2ME and Brew versions, with English, Spanish, Romanian and Russian user interfaces. OEMs can request BOLT in other platforms as well.
· A 153k lite version of BOLT is available for extremely resource-constrained devices.
Mobile Network Operators
· The BOLT mobile browser delivers PC-style browsing, multimedia streaming, widget downloads, and social networking that increase ARPU while lowering operator cost.
· BOLT reduces infrastructure costs through best-of-breed over the air data compression that is as much as 24:1, a factor that is more than twice-as-effective as competing mobile browsers. BOLT’s superior data compression offers the additional benefit of speedy performance on 2G networks and entry-level devices.
· Customizable widgets and featured favorites offer new revenue-generating opportunities.
· BOLT’s WebKit based cloud-computing architecture allows for easy scaling to hundreds of millions of users, and beyond.
· Flexible, cost-effective deployment options with Bitstream managing all server/cloud maintenance
BOLT is the most fully featured mobile browser, including many features not available in competing mobile browsers. Among these features are:
· Perfect rendering of Web pages on any class of phone, scoring 100 percent on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test.
· WebKit based cloud-computing architecture, ensuring rendering accuracy, speed and support for the latest web standards and innovations.
· Streaming video from many of the world’s most popular video sharing websites, including YouTube, MySpace, Blip.TV and MetaCafe, as well as websites that stream videos such as CNN, ESPN and any website with embedded YouTube videos.
· Super fast download speeds.
· Copy and pasting text.
· Built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook.
· Password manager.
· Download/Upload manager.
· Ability to run Web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, ranging from Google docs to Mafia Wars.
· The inclusion of widgets – standalone mobile applications that are run directly from the browser – such as a weather app, calendar app, calculator, Twitter client and others. These widgets let people using any phone take part in the mobile apps revolution.
· Best of breed over-the-air data compression, resulting in faster load times and decreased data usage.
· Ability to update the BOLT client remotely, over-the-air.
· Patented split screen viewing to make surfing complicated Web pages simple, and viewing content on the smallest of screens easy.
Bitstream has made BOLT extremely easy to use, with keypad shortcuts to quickly navigate pages and scale up and down through the browser’s six levels of magnification. Comprehensive instructions on how to use all of BOLT’s many features can be found at http://boltbrowser.com/faq.html.
Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support the full size applications and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream also offers a light version of the BOLT mobile browser, BOLT LiteTM. BOLT Lite contains all the essential features of the BOLT mobile browser, retaining BOLT’s feature-rich functionality, best-of-breed download speeds and desktop PC-style page layout in a smaller package optimized for entry-level devices.
BOLT 2.1 and BOLT Lite for free at http://boltbrowser.com. Consumers who have downloaded previous versions of BOLT will be prompted through the application to upgrade the browser.
About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.
About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.
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Posted by pao9195
Wow nice,complete details
Posted by Tsepz_GP
As i opened Bolt on my 5800xm this morning i got the update prompt,busy using 2.1 now,its EXCELLENT! Heck of a lot faster in general,i just luv using this browser, its like a lighter version of the S60 Web browser,and a more functional version of Mobile Safari from iPhone put together
Posted by chrismae
where do i find the link ? thanks....
Posted by ceaser2008
Try this
Bolt v2.10
Posted by chrismae
thanks bro..i tried your links but all the bolt 2.10 is in the jad file which is not supported by my phone ( w550i ) ...have a links for jar file ?
Posted by ceaser2008
Well click on the jad file and it will ask to download and press download using your default browser and thats it. Its in your mobile. About your phone, i think all sony ericsson mobile supports all .jar and .jad files.
Posted by boy.in.PINK
@chrismae Bitstream doesn't provide .jar installation files for Bolt in end users. So in the end, you must pay your Internet tariff to use this. If you still want the .jar, kindly head on the Asia Pacific regional forum.
@caesar2008 I guess you should keep your thread. I'll just work on creating a thread every release (with a press statement) while keep your thread as the official discussion for all versions and links for every press release. Deal?
Posted by chrismae
Thanks again bro, for the information , i got already bolt 2.1 handler 150 and i am using it right now..i dont know how to paste here the links so that the other can download also...thanks also to indonesians as they modify it already beyond our expectation.
Posted by mriley
Its better than opera in some ways, it seems to load pages pretty fast, how many seconds is it taking to load pages for you guys? It remembers my password which is good. I dont like the font it uses cos its hard to read, the UI needs work and isnt as good as opera's ui. I wont use it for youtube vids, opera is better at that. Is it possible to have 2 versions of opera in one phone or will it overwright?
Posted by hihihans
You can have as many as you like. They don't overwrite. If you want two of the same, it adds a number to it.
Posted by phonecrzy
VERY similar to Opera Mini 5, Dont you think?
[ This Message was edited by: phonecrzy on 2010-05-31 17:14 ]
Posted by mriley
On 2010-05-31 18:13:57, phonecrzy wrote:
VERY similar to Opera Mini 5, Dont you think?
Honestly, no I think it's very different, I think I'll go back to OM 3.2 except its UI isn't as good as OM 5.
Posted by phonecrzy
On 2010-05-31 19:22:57, mriley wrote:
I think I'll go back to OM 3.2 except its UI isn't as good as OM 5.
why don't u upgrade to OM5? its free
and you can download the jar/jad on your PC/Mac if you want (lets say if your phones net is ssloooow, but i dont think it would be THAT bad)
Posted by mriley
I've used all three browsers, I'm just saying that I think OM 3.2 is better than OM 5 and Bolt 2.1, in some ways it's worse but in others it's better.
Posted by boy.in.PINK
On 2010-05-31 18:13:57, phonecrzy wrote:
VERY similar to Opera Mini 5, Dont you think?
I beg to disagree. The OM5's UI is eye-candy and user-friendly. BOLT, on the other hand, offers better full page rendering and streaming support.
@Matt OM3.2? I rather pick 4.2 than 3.
Posted by pao9195
OM 4.2 UI is much better than OM 5 UI
Posted by mriley
@toph
Yeah thanks
that's the one, OM 4.2 I think it's nicer to navigate with 4.2 than 5.0 and Bolt 2.1 
Posted by phonecrzy
On 2010-06-01 16:19:30, mriley wrote:
@toph
Yeah thanks
that's the one, OM 4.2 I think it's nicer to navigate with 4.2 than 5.0 and Bolt 2.1
i agree i have OM 4.2, but with T-Mobile Web'n'Walk logo replaced, and OM 5 and 4.2 is way faster and more user friendly, but OM 5 is nice looking but slow and never works as it claims and should.
Posted by jake20
i like Bolt page layout better than OM, but sometimes pages wont load in BOLT, and i have to try a few times before it does. and sometimes you cannot back out of a popup without exiting the app..
its kind of buggy like that
Posted by boy.in.PINK
From BOLT Browser's official Facebook fan page:
Today we released a new update: version 2.11. This release includes important updates that address server response times which eliminates the problem on some websites that has caused BOLT to hang at 20 percent on the progress bar, as well as improves Twitter use. Although there are no new features in this release, we strongly recommend all users update to this new version for an improved mobile browsing experience.
Posted by SonofLiberty
THANK YOU!
you tube now works fine after the tool built in configured it! I have a C905a
Posted by suresh86
I think the UI is not user friendly. The browser and UI share the same settings, eg. when you increase the font size, menu font size increases too. It reloads every page after changing a setting. Some links wont respond instantly.
But it loads pages pretty fast and seems to be data efficient too.
Posted by boy.in.PINK
Full Stream Ahead as
BOLT Delivers Support
for HTML5 Audio and
Video Streaming
BOLT 2.3 now available to OEMs and MNOs
looking to offer sacrifice-free browsing for a rich
Internet experience on the widest range of
handsets
SAN FRANCISCO and MARLBOROUGH, Mass.,
Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:
BITS), creators of the award winning BOLT™
mobile browser, today announced the release of
BOLT 2.3, with a host of new features to
transform mobile phones of all types into
powerful Internet devices. BOLT 2.3 adds HTML5
audio streaming to complement the HTML5 video
streaming added in BOLT 2.1, and also includes
enhanced inline text editing, cloud-based backup
of customer's favorites and the addition of
Ustream.tv to the long international list of popular
Flash video sites supported by BOLT.
"With each new feature, from streaming audio
and video support to cloud-based back-up, BOLT
is delivering a better mobile Internet browsing
experience without barriers, which translates
directly to happier customers," said Anna
Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. "BOLT's
advanced capabilities and customer-centric
feature set, give handset manufacturers who
deploy BOLT an edge when differentiating
themselves from competitors and provides
mobile network operators yet another way to
compete for new users."
HTML5 and Mobile Browsing on BOLT
Bitstream continues to lead in mobile open
standards compliance by extending BOLT's
support for HTML5, the newest generation of the
HTML language. Already the only WebKit-based
cloud computing browser, BOLT is the first
mobile browser to support HTML5 video and,
with the release of BOLT 2.3, audio streaming.
Some of the largest online content providers and
Web technology companies such as Google and
Apple are embracing the use of the HTML5
standard, eliminating the need for third party add-
ons, plug-ins and separate media players that
have often created obstacles for viewing and
listening to streaming media via the mobile Web.
BOLT's support of HTML5 allows handset
manufacturers and mobile network operators to
offer streaming media on the growing number of
website designed for new mobile computing
platforms such as the Apple iPad and Google
Android tablets on the widest range of mobile
devices.
Most fully featured mobile browser, gets
even better
BOLT has earned a reputation as the most fully
featured mobile browser available, and with the
2.3 release, BOLT boosts its already powerful
mobile browsing capabilities:
Best Streaming Media Support - BOLT 2.3
now supports HTML5 streaming video and audio.
BOLT offers the broadest support for streaming
video in a mobile browser, with support for the
most popular Flash based video sites and all
HTML5 video sites.
* New Advanced Desktop Features - Along
with the ability to perfectly render Web pages as
they were meant to be seen from a PC, BOLT
also offers tabbed browsing, password manager,
advanced downloading and uploading capabilities
and now advanced inline text entry and editing
allowing people to enter and edit text directly in
Web page forms without opening up a separate
text editing window.
* Backed up in the Cloud - BOLT 2.3's new
favorites backup feature stores a user's
bookmarks on BOLT's servers, allowing them to
be restored if a user ever needs to change
phones for any reason.
* New Mobile Widgets - BOLT widgets let
people using any mobile phone take part in the
mobile apps revolution. Bolt 2.3's widget gallery
features weather, Wikipedia, and dictionary
widgets, along with an improved Twitter widget
and a brand new Facebook widget .
Posted by hihihans
Thanks PinkBoy
I'll give 2.3 a try.