Bitstream the company behind the Bolt Mobile Browser has released the 2.1 version of it’s BOLT Browser which was in a Beta for sometime. What’s cool is that the company is claiming that the browser has the best mobile browser video support. If that’s true then its some serious competition for Skyfire. This version has HTML5 Video support in addition to Flash. Bollywood sites such as hungama and bollywoodhungama are supported.
As you can see in the Screenshots below Video playback is possible and even FacebookChat is supposed to work
BOLT 2.1 Features
- Batter Video Support
- Tabbed Browsing
- Widgets
- Download Manager
- Integration with Social Networking Sites
We were wondering if BOLT was a big player considering the huge adoption for Opera Mini. BOLT claims to have a user base of over 6.5 million users out of which 20% are from India. And they are adding 1 million users a month which is impressive. Over 700,000 users downloaded the 2.1 Beta version.
You can logon to the BOLT website to grab the latest version.
UPDATE : Download will be available by 12:30 PM IST
Note: Bolt is a Java application and runs on any phone that supports Java apps. It has a special installer for Blackberry and Lite version too incase you run out of memory
Do you use BOLT ? Got any feedback ? Let us know.