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Bitstream Inc. creators of the award winning BOLT™ mobile browser, today announced the release of BOLT 2.3, with new advanced features to transform your 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.tv to the long international list of popular Flash video sites supported by BOLT.

Company announced, “BOLT users aren’t shy about telling us what features are most important to them and we are listening,” says Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “The new features in version 2.3 were driven by user requests as more people are using their phones as their primary on-ramp to the Internet. Feedback from users has been an incredible motivator, and the BOLT team gets more excited with each release. We believe BOLT 2.3 will be an instant crowd pleaser.”

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. The new released has following features:

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 widget.

Other Features including:

• Support for Tabbed browsing
• Facebook integration - post messages, links or URLs from any page displayed in BOLT directly to your Facebook account without navigating away from the currently viewed page.
• Support for HTML5 audio
• Support for HTML5 video
• Expanded streaming flash video support. Newly-supported sites include:
  • bbc.co.uk
  • mtv.com
  • svtplay.se
  • hungama.com
  • bollywoodhungama.com
  • nick.com
• Support for Facebook chat and other web-based chat apps.
• Support for YouTube web apps – search and view videos directly in BOLT
• Enjoy Twitter and Facebook widgets with BOLT's web app platform
• Backup your favorites to the device’s memory and restore them back through BOLT directly
• Backup the favorites to your user account at BOLT Space and restore them back regardless of device, its platform, BOLT type (BOLT or BOLT Lite) and location.

Update: Bolt Browser v2.3 modded with Screen Shooter feature by sohil876. Takes bmp high quality screenshots, just press Dial Key(Green Button on your keypad) and it will save Memory Card Root E:/, and in sony ericsson phones E:/Others/

Download Bolt Browser 2.3 and with Screen Shooter feature:

BoltBrowser2.3.jar (252 KB)

BoltBrowser2.3.jar (with Screen Shooter feature, 256 KB)