Bitstream announced brand new BOLT mobile internet browser 1. The young browser is pretty good than Opera mini and SkyFire in some of its features achieved in its short term of development.
Its faster as Opera mini and better than other browsers in page load time. Other notable facilities in BOLT mobile browser are less memory requirement and capability to stream Youtube videos within its interface. Download BOLT 1. But the page quality and load time superior or comparable with any other mobile browser in the market. BOLT browser support feeds , history lists and favorites. It can save images and web pages for future use.
The interface includes a cursor so that you can move freely over pages , copy-paste whenever required. Until recently, there was also SkyFire, which has now shut-down in many countries. This leaves one more alternative, the Bolt Browser from Bitstream. Bolt is compatible with both S60 3rd Edition and 5th Edition phones. It was released in January , and has been actively developed. In Opera Mini's case, the privacy issues around proxy browsing are outweighed for many users by the performance and usability benefits.
Read on to find out if the same applies to the Bolt Browser. Below these are three tabs for History , Favourites , and Feeds. Confusingly, the feeds section also includes a list of pages saved for offline viewing. Bolt comes with a range of default bookmarks, although there is no way to import bookmarks or synchronise them with the cloud.
For S60 3rd Edition phones, Bolt is cursor driven, like Web. However, when running on S60 5th Edition, the cursor is still present, despite being touchscreen operated.
Scrolling in Bolt contributes to spoiling the user experience; on 5th Edition it lacks kinetic scrolling, and scrolling on 3rd Edition phones is unforgivably jerky. At the bottom of the screen, Bolt has a pair of soft-keys for 'Menu' and 'Back', but notably no 'Forward' control.
The top of Bolt's user interface has an ever present title bar with icons for a new tab, close tab and accessing RSS feeds on the current page. These three icons are an example of how unsuited Bolt's user interface is for touchscreen phones; the icons are so small that a stylus is necessary to have any degree of accuracy.
Further to the user interface being too small, reading pages becomes something of a chore as well. Bolt is designed to provide a desktop browsing experience, although doing this on a small screen device is a bad idea. Text is uncomfortably small and lacks anti-aliasing, and sideways scrolling is often required. Text size can be changed via Bolt's 'Magnification' setting, although this has the unexpected side effect of scaling the user interface too, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
However, the bigger the text, the more sideways scrolling is required! Since Bolt is a proxy-based browser, why could text not be reflowed on Bolt's servers, so that it wrapped to fit the width of the screen? Another side effect of Bolt's Magnification feature is that at maximum, images will flicker to a smaller size as the cursor floats over them. Bolt's page overview function comes in the form of its Split Screen mode. In this mode, there is an upper pane displaying a page overview, with a lower pane showing a magnified section.
The user drags a box around on the upper pane to control what is shown below. Even though Bolt aims to provide a desktop browsing experience on mobile phones a flawed idea , there is an option to select whether Bolt will use the mobile or desktop layout of a page. This setting appears to have no effect at all, and Bolt always loads the desktop version of every website.
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