Bitstream Inc. announced yesterday the release of a new version of its mobile browser, namely BOLT 1.6. According to the company, the browser comes as a fully featured solution for all mobile phone users, and can be used on devices of all types. Not only that the BOLD 1.6 browser is capable of delivering leading data compression ratio, but it also offers the best website rendering, being able to render web pages as they are seen on a computer. 

The features list of the BOLT browser includes:
- Best of breed page load speeds
- Most accurate page rendering
- Displays full websites just as they would appear on desktop computers
- Streams videos from popular video services such as YouTube
- Copy and paste text
- Uploads video and photo files directly to websites from browser
- Only major WebKit based cloud computing browser
What’s New in This Release:
· Server upgrades (make v1.6 more than 15% faster than Beta3)
· Cache support that enables directly browsing back to a previously visited page
· Download manager that downloads files directly within BOLT on JSR 75 capable devices
· Dedicated search bar, enabling search on popular search engines directly from BOLT
· Enhanced column width control that auto-aligns the text to columns for ease of reading
· Enhanced video support that includes inline media playing capability even on low-end devices
· Enhanced copy-paste support for BlackBerry devices
· Support for streaming videos of any length
· Volume UP/DOWN controls in the inline media player
· Ability to rearrange the subscribed feeds using the ‘grab’ feature
· Access to History links from the URL window with inline editing OFF
· One click access on Home Page that ensures the cursor jumps to the desired widget



BOLT 1.6 can now be set as the default browser on BlackBerry smartphones, based on users requests. Moreover, the company notes that users of a RIM device can enjoy default BlackBerry shortcuts and optimizations with the browser. The BOLT browser, Bitstream notes, has been downloaded more than 2.8 million times since its launch back in February this year, and has been also selected as the default browsing solution by makers around the world.

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