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BOLT Mobile Browser 2.1 released! |
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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 2.1s new features are tighter integration with Facebook, support for HTML5 video and several new Flash video streaming websites.
BOLT 2.1s advanced integration with Facebook by far the most popular domain visited by BOLT users around the world includes the ability to use Facebooks 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 Bitstreams 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 BOLTs 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.
BOLTs 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. BOLTs 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.
BOLTs 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 Standards 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 worlds 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 browsers six levels of magnification. Comprehensive instructions on how to use all of BOLTs 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 BOLTs 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 iPhones Safari and Androids Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the worlds 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. Bitstreams 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 companys MyFonts brand is the worlds leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstreams Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The companys 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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pao9195
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Wow nice,complete details 
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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 
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where do i find the link ? thanks.... |
ceaser2008
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Try this
Bolt v2.10
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chrismae
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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 ?
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ceaser2008
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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.
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boy.in.PINK
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@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?
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chrismae
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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. |
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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?
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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.
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phonecrzy
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VERY similar to Opera Mini 5, Dont you think?
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mriley
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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.
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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)
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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.
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