Bolt 2.0 for BlackBerry proved to be quite a showstopper at CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas. Providing a better alternative to browsing on the BlackBerry platform, the new Bolt browser not only has tabbed browsing but also includes many impressive features. Here’s what the new and the much improved Bolt 2.0 browser has to offer:

• Perfect rendering of Web pages on any class of phone, scoring 100 percent on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test.
• Streaming video from many of the world’s most popular video sharing websites, including YouTube, MySpace, Blip.TV and MetaCafe, as well as websites that stream videos such as CNN, ESPN and any website with embedded YouTube videos.
• Super fast download speeds.
• Copy and pasting text.
• Built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook.
• Password manager.
• Download/Upload manager.
• Ability to run Web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, ranging from Google docs to Mafia Wars.
• The inclusion of widgets, standalone mobile applications that are run directly from the browser, such as a weather app, calendar app, calculator, Twitter client and others. These widgets let people using any phone take part in the mobile apps revolution.
• Best of breed over-the-air data compression, resulting in faster load times and decreased data usage.
• Patented split screen viewing to make surfing complicated Web pages simple, and viewing content on the smallest of screens easy.
• Additional notable upgrades in BOLT 2.0 include a faster widget gallery with updated user interface and a server upgrade to WebKit 4.03

Bolt 2.0 is expected for an early release today. We’ll let you know once it goes live.

UPDATE: Bolt 2.0 has just gone live. Click on the link to download. Enjoy!

[CrackBerry]

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