BOLT updates mobile browser

MARLBOROUGH, BARCELONA: Exactly one year after its public debut, Bitstream Inc. today announced a new version of the BOLT Mobile Browser, which makes the lightning fast uncompromised browsing experience for phones of all types even better with new features and enhancements.

According to releas, the 1.7 release of BOLT offers increased functionality and usability, with new features including direct Twitter integration, Spanish and Russian language support, an enhanced download manager, increased streaming video features and the ability to run widgets.

As BOLT marks its first anniversary, mobile browser has surpassed 4 million users, streamed over 135 million minutes of video (equivalent to 256 years if played back to back), served more than 512 million pages, as many as 3 million pages per day, and downloaded more than 132 terabytes of data, an amount that's double the size of the entire digital collection of the U.S. Library of Congress added the press release.

“The past year was both exciting and intense as BOLT’s developers learned what features were most important to its users, and how desired features would mesh with manufacturing trends in mobile handsets and the evolution of the Internet,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream.

“Before we launched BOLT we knew that Bitstream engineers and developers built a remarkable foundation on which we could continue to evolve the BOLT mobile browser, and the positive support and constant feedback we received from a great many of our 4 million helped us prioritize the features and enhancements in each successive release," added Magliocco-Chagnon.

But as excited as we were for the first year of BOLT, the next year promises to be more dynamic as we plan to introduce features that took longer to engineer and we add more handset manufacturers to the roster of those preloading BOLT on mobile phones, concluded Magliocco-Chagnon.