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BOLT Mobile Browser 2.0 beta released |
boy.in.PINK
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Bitstream unveils the second generation of the acclaimed BOLT mobile browser, the most fully featured mobile browser, now featuring tabbed browsing.
Press release:
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Marlborough, Massachusetts – March 23, 2010 – 700 million pages viewed, 190 million minutes of video watched, 180 terabytes of data transferred, and over 5 million users since BOLT was first introduced in February 2009, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced Beta availability of BOLT 2.0, the next generation of the BOLT mobile browser, the most fully featured browser for mobile phones of all types. Among the new features in the BOLT 2.0 Beta version is tighter integration with Facebook – by far the most popular domain visited by BOLT users around the world – including 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 2.0 is the addition of tabbed browsing, letting people simultaneously browse multiple websites and easily switch between them.
Each new version of BOLT becomes more exciting to announce,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “We are closely listening to our end-users through our user forum, our Twitter and Facebook pages, and their comments on blog posts and articles, and they are guiding our development roadmap in important ways. It is this close relationship we are building with our users to which we attribute our stunning growth. BOLT added 1 million new users in the last five weeks alone.
Like its predecessor, BOLT 2.0 is engineered to run on mobile phones of all types, from low-end feature phones to high-end smartphones. BOLT is the only major WebKit-based cloud computing browser and is built to deliver a PC-like browsing experience on mobile phones. The second generation of BOLT maintains all the features of the first generation BOLT browser, including many that no other mobile browser offers:
Perfect rendering of Web pages on any class of phone, scoring 100 percent on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test.
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.
Patented split screen viewing to make surfing complicated Web pages simple, and viewing content on the smallest of screens easy.
Additional notable upgrades in BOLT 2.0 include a faster widget gallery with updated user interface and a server upgrade to WebKit 4.03.
Bitstream has made BOLT extremely easy to use, with keyboard 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.
BOLT is free to download and works on any Mobile Java (J2ME) phone (approximately 75 percent of the estimated 4 billion phones in use today). Handset manufacturers and wireless operators looking to preload BOLT on their mobile phones can license a custom version of BOLT built for any operating system or platform.
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.
The BOLT 2.0 Beta can be downloaded for free at http://boltbrowser.com/beta/download.html. People can still download BOLT 1.7 and BOLT Lite for free at http://boltbrowser.com.
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jake20
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even the new version does not display WAP pages, only full desktop versions.. disappointing  |
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On 2010-03-24 04:02:01, jake20 wrote:
even the new version does not display WAP pages, only full desktop versions.. disappointing
try to go to Menu > Preferences, then check Mobile view.. 
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So sad, though my phone is able to get this new version of bolt, still i can't get it to work for free coz the trick doesn't work on my nokia s40v5 unit. Just eat my heart out!:( |
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NOW i like it  got 3tabs open and enjoying it, BUT the next thing is for them to make it more touch friendly, using it to write this on my 5800, when wanting to open a new tab i HAVE to use the stylus as the icon is way too small and too close to the close window icon.
Also the font needs its own adjustment option,as magnifaction affects images to,otherwise i gota give it to the BOLT developers,its pretty dam good.
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On 2010-03-24 04:45:13, boy.in.PINK wrote:
On 2010-03-24 04:02:01, jake20 wrote:
even the new version does not display WAP pages, only full desktop versions.. disappointing
try to go to Menu > Preferences, then check Mobile view..
thanks, but I have already done this.. it just does not work on my phone.. it always displays the desktop version of the page no matter what my settings are.
other than that, i love this browser |
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I will give it a try. Gonna compare it with OM.
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@Jake20 then that would be bad for Esato xHTML users like me.. 
honestly, i still didn't tried this.. Someone just tell me about this so i quicky shared this to my fellow Esatonians.. Maybe i should pay internet tariff for a while to test this thing..
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Selecting Mobile view Layout simply takes away all the adverts e.g. all the Google ads, and it makes it that when viewing a xHTML page it fits properly in the screen. Mobile view does work, when i had it On and visited DailyMobile Forum,it loaded the mobile version. I prefer Desktop layout though, it just displays pages well, even the ads that i dont mind.
This browser also seems even less power hungry than UCWeb  and no more having to rewrite posts unlike Opera Mini5 which is just annoying to post ANYWHERE with 
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jake20
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for sites like ORB where you need the WAP version of the page, this browser is useless.
It will not display the WAP version of any sites |
pao9195
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Im not yet try the mobile lay out on Bolt, im always using desktop lay out for better page rendering that's why im not sure if the mobile view settings is not working perfectly. 
I have noticed that this new release supports only 3 tabs but in Opera Mini 5 supports more tabs and lots of bugs. Thats why im stick to the previous version
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'jake20' i realized that wapsites aren't working properly with BOLT.. wen.ru is a WML-based (WAP) hosting site, and i can't log in to that site..
But i guess, only one thing isn't included on this version. Flash! And because all java-scripts are now supported, I can chat on Facebook with Bolt! I can even see my school grades (that are encoded online) here. Practically the best browser for those who need such said features.
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A new version of Bolt Browser is released. Bolt ME 2.02
Bolt users will receive an update notification upon connecting of the browser to the Internet.
Haven't tried this yet though.
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New v2.02 its amazing  so fast in upload and save password option as opera mini 5 final and mobile lyaout option too download link http://www.4shared.com/file/YAxApE6F/boltbrowse_hpxj41cz.html
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good for you then... though i sticked with the 2.00... and i dunno why...
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Posted: 2010-03-24 03:31
you have and I'll tell you who you are."
