Bolt officially announced that they’re dropping the beta tag with today’s release of BOLT 1.5. New features include viewing videos of any length, a dedicated search bar, a download manager that downloads files directly from BOLT, improved navigation and text rendering, and caching support. Version 1.5 includes a host of new features designed to improve usability and stability, including:

* Server upgrades (make v1.5 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

Note: don’t forget that you need a JAVA engine to run Bolt

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Opera finally updated their Opera Mini browser to 5.0 (beta) and released it for the public today.

New features:

1. Sleek design — Opera Mini 5 features a new, intuitive and advanced look and feel.
2. Tabbed browsing — This desktop favorite is now available for Opera Mini. Tabs allow users to browser several sites simultaneously. This helps users easily jump from one page to another with the click of a tab.
3. Touchscreen or keypad browsing — Opera Mini caters to the needs of your phone, offering optimal browsing for both touchscreen and keypad-based phones.
4. Password manager — Opera Mini is a virtual memory bank, securely saving all passwords for e-mail, social-networking sites, online banking and more.
5. Speed Dial — This is our take on a table of contents for your Web adventure. Opera’s Speed Dial will greet you with your pre-selected Internet favorites upon loading the browser.

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One Click WiFI Toggler, created by elmalote, is a simple application that turns WiFi on in one click. It makes browsing the mobile web much easier because you don’t have to go through the trouble of navigating to your communications manager to turn WiFi on and off.

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Dorothy. Quite an interesting name for a web browser, don’t you think? Well, it is the latest of several web-kit based mobile web browsers for Windows Mobile and it’s recently been released for beta testing. Since Dorothy is fairly early in development, it’s not packed with too many features. It currently logs history, saves bookmarks, has zooming and support for landscape mode. You can grab it by signing up for the beta on their site.

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Snaptu is a free mobile service that offers you a selection of fun and useful applications. It’s a fast and easy way to access the internet on your mobile device. With Snaptu, you’re able to view movie reviews, tap into social networks like Twitter & Facebook, keep up with cricket and football matches, access Google Calendar, use Picasa, play Sudoku, get weather information, retrieve current news, and more!

Note: You will need to download and install Java to run this application (like Opera Mini), if you don’t already have it.

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You’re probably familiar with your device’s capability to share its data connection with your PC via a mini-usb cable. You might also be familiar with expensive software like WMWiFiRouter and PDAnet. Well, WMPoweruser has recently discovered an app, called HTC WiFi Router, that lets you turn your device into a WiFi router for free. That’s right, for free!

Note: After installation, set your WEP key and connect to the net with your laptop.

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One of the advantages of using a Windows Mobile device is that we have many choices of web browsers. Opera, Opera Mini, Iris, Skyfire, IE, and now Bolt is nicely progressing to be a very useful browser.

Bolt is a free web browser that offers an uncompromised browsing experience, even on lower-end mobile phones. The latest beta adds copy/paste, various font support, the ability to upload files to sites and more. Deciding which browser to use just became harder, so test it out and see if it’s to your liking.

Note: You will need JAVA on your device.

LIGHTNING FAST MOBILE BROWSING

- Routinely loads pages at least 25%-50% faster than competing mobile browsers
- Patented navigation and display technologies get you where you’re going faster

WATCH. CONNECT. SURF.

- View streaming videos
- Enjoy all the features of your favorite social networking site
- Subscribe to RSS feeds
- Shop securely
- Browse any website

UNCOMPROMISED WEB EXPERIENCE

- Full desktop PC-style browsing on all types of mobile phones
- Web content is never reformatted, repurposed, or removed

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Torch Mobile has released an important update for their popular browser, Iris. Now that it has reached version 1.1.9, we are seeing many enhancements and features. Some may be sad to see such features like the “ripple effect” go, but others will be happy to see fixes for flash and the implementation of a media player plugin. It is important noting that the new multimedia features are still rather early in development, but nevertheless, they still work. View the recent changelog below.

Changes:

- Improved canvas support – curves, transparency fixes, and more
- Application cache support
- Some networking and javascript fixes
- Flash reliability fixes
- The link click animation has been removed, by popular request
- A security fix in SVG support
- Preliminary RTSP support and a Windows Media plugin. Also the beginning of HTML5 audio/video support (more to come here)
- Fixes for various iPhone sites, including Google calendar and reader

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WeFi is a Windows Mobile application that helps you find the strongest available WiFi connection in the area. WeFi will automatically search for the best free WiFi in the area when turned on. Find WiFi spots on your map, add your own WiFi spots, or even see where your friends are connected locally or worldwide! To see your or any other connection location just enter the address in the search box and hit “search”. You will pull up a map of all available and free WiFi spots in the area.

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