
There is a beta version of a new third-party browser for Blackberry users called
“Bolt.” One of my biggest problems with the Blackberry is that it is rather difficult to use the default browser when browsing websites. I use the web all the time on my Blackberry and spend half my time waiting for pages to load or not load at all (causing me to restart). The only other browser I know that works reasonably well is called
“Opera”, but I always revert back to the default
BB edition. The
Bolt is not a bad little browser. It loads the entire web page on your Blackberry, similar to the iPhone. However, the iPhone does a fabulous job sizing the webpages to fit onto your screen. The Blackberry browser on the market just can’t do it…yet. You have to scroll side to side, up and down to see the whole site. There are a few nice features on the Bolt browser, but I still feel that it is a waste of time building this program until it can be more like the iPhone brower. There is still lots of time waiting only to get a
HUGE website that does not fit your screen well. I had problems with the
“mobile” version too, which supposedly does resize the pages. So, all in all, I’m not impressed with
Bolt just yet. It is still in the testing stages. There is quite a bit more features I would add before making it available to all of us. I will still keep Bolt on my device to play around with it. Sometimes it just takes time!
About David Chism
David Chism started his business out of a passion for helping small contracting businesses grow, be more profitable and become better known to their target clients. One lifelong hobby of David is using techie gadgets. So this blog is a place where he writes about technology, marketing ideas, just for fun (humor), personal thoughts on small business and more.