Bolt Smartphone Browser Does Flash Video

BOLT v0.83 S60v3 J2ME-Browser with Streaming Video,Flash,Split Screen View [update]

Bitstream seems to be offering a beta version of a new smartphone web browser called Bolt, which boasts “full PC-style browsing on all types of mobile phones.”

Key features of BitStream BOLT include:

- WebKit based rendering engine

- WebPages are compressed at a rate of 23:1

- ECMA Script 262 JavaScript support for Web site forms, applications and other information

- View AJAX pages that are written using ECMA-262/JavaScript 1.5 standard

- Supports WAP 1.x content WML, and WAP 2.x content XHTML-MP with WCSS and ECMAScript-MP

- Automatic detection for RSS feeds

- Supports streaming Flash videos

- Split screen browsing – 2/3 of the screen shows the full page, serving as a mini-map with a highlighting box, while the other 1/3 shows the magnified area

- URL auto-complete

- Detect phone numbers for Click to Call

Red emphasis added by me.

Look at what’s in this screensnap:

YouTube!

What’s unclear is whether this browser depends on a proxy server. This seems to hint at that: “23:1 over the air data reduction speeds delivery of pages to your phone.”

Still, I wonder if they will do a version that adheres to the Palm Pre GUI?

Just for the sake of being able to get YouTube, Veoh, and other Flash videos services as soon as possible, this could be an interesting bit of software.

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iPhone Now Does Veoh! Will The Palm Pre?

Veoh Comes To Your iPhone!

Oh. My. God.

I didn’t think UStream for iPhone was possible.

And I never, ever expected this!

Veoh is the second most popular online video service.

To me, it’s the best online video service.

Only those who have taken the time to plumb its depths understand why I say that. (I will not be doing initiations, so you may not ask why I say that.)

Right now, the only way the Palm Pre can top this is by having full-out Flash video capability.

Really, I’m not just drooling at the thought of Veoh accessibility via iPhone, I’m actually getting cramps too.

But wait: Could there still be hope for the Pre?

Yes, the wait is over — Veoh is now accessible on the iPhone and iTouch! Simply navigate to www.veoh.com and we’ll automatically route you to our iPhone/iTouch web application.

Maybe so! Because, despite those screensnaps, I can’t find a Veoh application anywhere at the iTunes Store!

If Veoh is doing all this via detecting the ID for Mobile Safari and redirecting iPhone and iPod Touch users to a special site, then Veoh can do the same for Palm Pre owners too.

I can haz Veoh on the Palm Pre?