Bitstream Inc. has unleashed BOLT 2.0 beta, the next generation of the BOLT mobile browser. BOLT 2.0 Beta is expected to go live tomorrow during CTIA 2010 and will be available for download shortly
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The most significant new feature of BOLT 2.0 beta is the addition of tabbed browsing, letting people simultaneously browse multiple websites while easily toggling 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.”
Tabbed browsing is yet another advanced capability added to BOLT’s feature set based on user feedback from BOLT’s user forum, Twitter and Facebook pages, direct emails and comments on blog posts and articles.
Additional new features in BOLT 2.0 beta include tighter integration with Facebook including the ability to use Facebook’s IM service directly from within BOLT, a faster widget gallery and a server upgrade to WebKit 4.03.
Bolt 2.0 Features
• 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.
BOLT added 1 million new users in the last five weeks alone
BOLT already provides best-of-breed web page rendering, streaming video from many of the world’s most popular video sharing sites, like YouTube, CNN, ESPN and more, copy and paste, blazing fast download speeds, widgets, built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook and the ability to run web-based apps like Mafia Wars and Google Docs.