BOLT Renders Its Billionth Page

Mobile web browser BOLT, which is now used by more than 7.3 million people worldwide, has rendered its billionth web page, Bitstream (company behind it) announced earlier this week.

“In July of last year Bitstream announced that BOLT climbed past 100 million Web pages rendered” … “The first 100 million pages are always the hardest.”

Said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream.

What’s so great about BOLT?
It works on pretty much any JM2ME mobile phone
Scores 100/100 in the ACID3 test (WebKit-based)
Allows video streaming
Has a password/download manager
Tabs support
… and more

You may download it in two flavors: BOLT and BOLT Lite.

Weekly Browsers Recap, February 8th

• FBI’s Most Wanted: Your Browsing Activity
• The iPhone is the new Internet Explorer 6, says mobile developer
• IE8 is now the world’s top browser, says NetApps, as XP falls
• Mozilla to remove legacy Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger code in Firefox
• Fake Firefox Update Pages Push Adware
• Firefox 3.6 tips and tweaks
• Accelerate Firefox 3.6 page scrolling
• Google Translate Integrated In Google Chrome 5
• Google Might Advertise Chrome, Nexus One or Google Apps at Super Bowl
• Finally! “Find in Page” Comes to Mobile Safari
• Huawei to preinstall Opera Mobile 10 on its phones for China
• Bolt Browser gets Updated to Version 1.6 – Brings New Features

Thanks to Demir, mabdul and Sebastian for links.

Bolt 1.5 Mobile Browser out of Beta

With the release of version 1.5, mobile web browser Bolt has finally reached stable release tree. Claiming to be more than 15% faster than previous Beta 3 release, it aims to compete against Opera Mini or other popular web browsers.

Bolt has quite two strong points: it’s free and works with multiple platforms, such as: Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and pretty much every Java based handset. Also, they claim that “it loads pages at least 25%-50% faster than competing mobile browsers”.

If you are curious enough to try it out, here are some download links.

Weekly Browsers Recap, June 30th

• Internet Explorer 8 optimized for eBay
• Firefox 3.5 is fast, but still behind Chrome and Safari
• Eight Firefox extensions for the Twitter fanatic
• Sneak Peek: What’s On Tap for Firefox in 2010
• Google move paves way for Firefox on Android
• Developer Tools for Google Chrome
• Google launches new open source Sputnik for JavaScript
• Bolt Mobile Browser Celebrates Milestone