Comments on: BlackBerry BOLT browser free public beta test

By: Loraine Sharp-Fitzpatrick

Loraine Sharp-Fitzpatrick — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:35:44 +0000

excellent article! i’ll be back for sure.

By: Mafia Wars Tricks

Mafia Wars Tricks — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:35:16 +0000

Great post. Nice blog design also, troubling to see your RSS feed though :S

By: calcugan

calcugan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:02:04 +0000

I have Bolt 1.04 on my Verizon 8330, I love it! I deleted Opera Mini. The way it formats the pages is identical to a pc! I can access sites I never could before and click on links that have not been an option on Opera or the default Blackberry browser. Fantastic job! You guys really did your homework! ***** out of *****

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:35:52 +0000

I love it for Mafia Wars on Facebook. It is the only one that offers the ability to play on my Blackberry, plus I like the look better than the regular BB Browser.

By: ken

ken — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:24:35 +0000

Why do they call this bolt?? Please change the name to poke, cvause on my curve its slower than the native BB browser.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:20:06 +0000

I have been using Bolt now for a few days an I found it to be better than the Blackberry browser and opera mini. It has extras on it that the other two don’t have, like split screen and download images. There are other extras that should be checked out before it is removed from your Blackberry. I agree that the trackball movement is slow, but it is overall a better browser in my opinion. It still needs work, like the other browsers.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:26:31 +0000

I don’t care if this web browser out speeds all the others, when I can’t get make my cursor to move to make it happen. Anyone have any DW40? I am waiting on skyfire to come out with their browser for Blackberry.

Regards,

By: john doe

john doe — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:16:09 +0000

tried bolt. wish it could enlarge the web pages like the blackberry storm. also was able to access a secure website that i was not able to do with the blackberrystorm, and also with the new opera mini.things that i can do on a regular pc. so i am keeping it for just that one reason. other than that i like the blackberry browser

By: Noah Fingway

Noah Fingway — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:30:53 +0000

Bolt is supposed to be so fast; not at all my experience. Running a VZW Curve 8330; found the Bolt browser to be a real drag; gave up on using it as I found it much more problematic than the native browser or the other options.

Would love to find something better on my BB.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:14:41 +0000

The Bolt browser, to me was not enough of an improvment over the BB browser to keep using it. The speed of the trackball was imposibale!

By: Griffin

Griffin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:59:46 +0000

I agree with everyone else that the trackball response time is absolutely positively painfully slow. Pages load a bit faster, but not a huge improvement from the bb browser.

The one huge benefit I see, is that I am able to access my Hotmail account for the first time since upgrading my os. That’s about the only thing I use Bolt for. Other than that I’m sticking with bb browser due to the lack of speed with the trackball.

By: rob

rob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:56:53 +0000

To the dudes behind BOLT:

The majority of BB people want a tabbed BB browser, not an Opera Mini-type browser. Sure, you’re MUCH faster than the Opera Mini, for that I give you kudos.

We want to see WAP pages (.mobi, m., et al), will you allow that?

Thanks!

By: Joseph. (Brampton, ON)

Joseph. (Brampton, ON) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:34:40 +0000

This is the first time I have left any comments. But I read everyday through bbcool and vigo about the Opera mini and now Bolt on Beta. It seems to me that these two applications are still controversial. Why? What is the difference between the Blackberry Browser vs these two applications? I have the bold. I dont get everyones facination with touch screens! You put a bold and a storm on a typing speed test and hands down I know the Bold is going to kick you know what!!
Anyway, sorry got carried away, Can anyone tell me if the applications are better than whats already defaulted on my phone? Bottom line, I guess im thinking, If its not broken, why fix it?

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:31:43 +0000

I have Opera, I have Bolt, but still can’t find a reason not to use BB Browser. True, it does an really bad job of rendering some pages and gets locked on occasion, but the shortcuts and integration with the rest of the blackberry OS (ie saving pages, emailing, cut and paste, ota, etc.) Outweigh the downside. When I want to view pages with content BB Browser has trouble viewing, I use Opera (but inevitably encounter something I want to review in further detail later on my desktop and bang my head against the wall because I can’t email it to myself or cut and paste the address).

I have not found any benefit with Bolt over Opera, but I haven’t really spent a ton of time using it.

By: spoilerfail

spoilerfail — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:58:58 +0000

This browser is unbelievablly slow.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:06:00 +0000

this (Bolt) is a waste of time….. no improvement

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:51:17 +0000

The trackball response is still painfully slow. Renders pages really fast though, but I still stick with the BB Browser.

By: m1

m1 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:50:34 +0000

I can’t understand the hype on a browser that doesn’t improve on the current average alternative browser a’la opera mini. Let’s see cut/paste and ability to ota and then we can talk. Till then, why the hell wouldn’t I use Opera mini???! Lol, sorry.