14 DAY TRIAL // Today, Bitstream Inc. announced that its BOLT mobile browser managed to render its 1 billionth Web page, achieving this milestone only a week after the latest version of the application, namely BOLT 2.1, was made available for download. The solution is one of the most advanced mobile browsers on the market, available for all types of phones. Launched in February 2009, the BOLT browser can offer a nice range of features to users, including video streaming, social networking integration, tabbed browsing and more.
“In July of last year Bitstream announced that BOLT climbed past 100 million Web pages rendered,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “The first 100 million pages are always the hardest. At our current rate of usage, BOLT servers are rendering 100 million Web pages every two weeks, and that rate is accelerating. BOLT is now drawing new users faster than 1 million every month, another rate that is also accelerating. It’s extremely gratifying that after all our hard work and our dialogue with our users, we’ve built a mobile application that is highly reviewed, award-winning and popular around the world.”
According to the company, the BOLT browser is currently used by a number of more than 7.3 million people in over 200 countries. Since released on the market, the application streamed over 570 million minutes of video, and managed to transfer 290 terabytes of data in 2010 alone. The browser is currently streaming about 15 years worth of video every day, courtesy of HTML5 video support and Flash video support it brings to a wide range of mobile phones.
Among the main features of the solution, we can count great rendering of Web pages (100 percent score on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test), WebKit based cloud-computing architecture, broad streaming video support, fast download speeds, copy and paste capabilities, integration with Twitter and Facebook, support for Web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, support for widgets, tabbed browsing, or over-the-air updates for the BOLT client.
“Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support the full size applications and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream also offers a light version of the BOLT mobile browser, BOLT Lite. BOLT Lite contains all the essential features of the BOLT mobile browser, retaining BOLT’s feature-rich functionality, best-of-breed download speeds and desktop PC-style page layout in a smaller package optimized for entry-level devices,” the company added.
BOLT 2.1 and BOLT Lite are available for download from Softpedia too, via this link.