BOLT 2.3 Full Stream Ahead: Fueled by HTML5 Audio and Video Streaming

Bitstream, Inc., creators of the award-winning BOLT mobile browser, launched BOLT 2.3, with a host of new features to transform mobile phones of all types into powerful Internet devices. BOLT 2.3 adds HTML5 audio streaming to complement the HTML5 video streaming added in BOLT 2.1, and also includes enhanced inline text editing, cloud-based backup of customer's favorites and the addition of Ustream (News - Alert).tv to the long international list of popular Flash video sites supported by BOLT.

In a press release, Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream (News - Alert), said, “With each new feature, from streaming audio and video support to cloud-based back-up, BOLT is delivering a better mobile Internet browsing experience without barriers, which translates directly to happier customers. BOLT's advanced capabilities and customer-centric feature set, give handset manufacturers who deploy BOLT an edge when differentiating themselves from competitors and provides mobile network operators yet another way to compete for new users.”

BOLT has earned a reputation as the most fully featured mobile browser available, and with the 2.3 release, BOLT boosts its already powerful mobile browsing capabilities:

Best Streaming Media Support - BOLT 2.3 now supports HTML5 streaming video and audio. BOLT offers the broadest support for streaming video in a mobile browser, with support for the most popular Flash based video sites and all HTML5 video sites. 

New Advanced Desktop Features - Along with the ability to perfectly render Web pages as they were meant to be seen from a PC, BOLT also offers tabbed browsing, password manager, advanced downloading and uploading capabilities and now advanced inline text entry and editing allowing people to enter and edit text directly in Web page forms without opening up a separate text editing window.

Backed up in the Cloud - BOLT 2.3's new favorites backup feature stores a user's bookmarks on BOLT's servers, allowing them to be restored if a user ever needs to change phones for any reason.

New Mobile Widgets - BOLT widgets let people using any mobile phone take part in the mobile apps revolution. Bolt 2.3's widget gallery features weather, Wikipedia, and dictionary widgets, along with an improved Twitter widget and a brand new Facebook (News - Alert) widget.

Recently, Bitstream was in news when one of its divisions, Pageflex, launched Pageflex SaaS (News - Alert), a comprehensive service, providing users with the tools, technology and expertise required to quickly and easily expand their business by selling customized documents and items online.

Sujata Garud is a TMCnet freelancer with three years of writing/editing experience and two years of market research experience. As an editor she has covered the IT, electronics, banking, pharma, construction, mining and healthcare industries. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Jaclyn Allard