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BOLT Mobile Browser Discontinued

Vygantas Lipskas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:49:22 +0000

BOLT, a little web browser that could, has announced the end of its saga.

Some time last year, June 2010, to be exact, BOLT has published a press release, claiming that is has rendered its billionth page with more than 7.3 million active users worldwide. Well, as it turns out, the economic circumstances did its own thing and those numbers are no longer relevant.

What did the company have to say? Not much.

The free BOLT mobile browsing service will be discontinued. Unfortunately, the economic circumstances prevent us from running a free service going forward. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your loyalty and support.

That is all, folks.

[Thanks, Rafael Luik]

Weekly Browsers Recap, August 17th

Vygantas Lipskas — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:45:49 +0000

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BOLT Renders Its Billionth Page

Vygantas Lipskas — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:59:30 +0000

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.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, February 8th

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:18:32 +0000

Thanks to Demir, mabdul and Sebastian for links.

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Bolt 1.5 Mobile Browser out of Beta

Vygantas Lipskas — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:57:17 +0000

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.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, June 30th

Vygantas Lipskas — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:45:25 +0000