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There were a huge number of major announcements<\/a> at the Mobile World Congresss (MWC) in Barcelona today.\u00a0 Somewhat lost in the barrage of press releases was that Bitstream has released Bolt 1.7.\u00a0 The main things that are new in this release are:<\/p>\n The widgets are installed from an on-device Gallery.\u00a0 I haven’t been able to find any information on developing Widgets for Bolt or how developers can\u00a0 add them to the Gallery.<\/p>\n More information about Bolt 1.7 can be found in the press release<\/a> and the Bolt Browser FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n I ran Version 1.7 through its paces on a Nokia N95.\u00a0 This release continues Bolt’s pattern of steady incremental improvement\u00a0 which I’ve seen over the past year since the browser’s first release. I’m particularly pleased with the new top of page and bottom of page shortcut keys in this release. I’d gotten so used to being able to quickly jump to the top and bottom of the page in Opera Mini 4.2 and missed that ability in Bolt (and in the Opera Mini 5 Beta which still lacks this essential feature).<\/p>\n Bolt is the only Java browser with more than two zoom levels, it has seven\u00a0 and the new zoom hotkeys\u00a0 make on the fly zooming easy.<\/p>\n I’m taking a wait and see approach to the widgets. None of the initial ones seem particularly useful but it will be interesting to see how Bolt’s widget platform evolves.\u00a0 Hopefully Bolt will open widget development to third parities and provide a way to port\u00a0 web widgets from other platforms like Symbian and Opera.<\/p>\n Bolt is a reliable and fast browser that seems to to able to faithfully render even difficult sites that Opera Mini and UCWEB have problems with.\u00a0 It’s still a little weak on features, lacking both tabbed browsing and a fit to width mode but is a fine choice for general browsing.<\/p>\n Users of previous versions of Bolt will be prompted to upgrade the first time they load a page.\u00a0 If you are new to Bolt, visit boltbrowser.com<\/a> with phone or PC to download and install.\u00a0 Bolt is a generic Java application which runs on most phones.\u00a0 There is also a special BlackBerry version Bolt and a “Lite” variant for low end devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There were a huge number of major announcements at the Mobile World Congresss (MWC) in Barcelona today.\u00a0 Somewhat lost in the barrage of press releases was that Bitstream has released Bolt 1.7.\u00a0 The main things that are new in this release are: The ability to post to\u00a0 Twitter from within Bolt.\u00a0 Posts are pre-populated with the current page’s URL and are editable so you can add your own comments to the tweet. Widgets (images below) based on the draft W3C … Continue reading \n
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