A Blog From Behind the Trenches

great, I tried Bolt and it is much slower than Mini when loading pages and navigating. But all in all not a bad browser... I suppose they need the hype to gain users.

I downloaded the bolt browser, but that thing doesn't even start on my nokia 3500c. It starts, shows the loading screen makes internet access, keeps showing the loading screen, and after 5(!) minutes it shows a message that my phone doesn't have any internet access. What's that about?
Granted opera mini 5 looks horrible for me, since the skin is bigger than my phone, but at least it seems to fully work, while bolt doesn't even start...
No internet access? How do they think I got that application on my phone in the first place?

Edit: works as soon as I discovered the light version. (Anyone know the difference between the full and the light version?) I like the default page, since it has history + feeds + favorites, but then that's it. I really miss opera link just to much...

Plus it also depends on the phones hardware, a phone can only process so much at one time

Get the mobile browser everyone is talking about, the fastest mobile browser on the market today.

so, everyone is talking about it? (ok, we are, but because of what reason? ).

Good point Haavard, exactly what I was thinking.

I haven't updated my bolt browser yet. I received the email for the update though. .

They must have hired the Safari for Windows marketing team.

I've been using Tmob as ip for last 5 years - today they told me they don't have a mast in my area and they've been piggybacking O2...
=o}

We have two and a half mobile service providers in South Africa!
Vodacom, MTN and CellC. And one virtual provider, Virgin Mobile! .
Vodacom and MTN both have there own infrastructure. CellC uses some of their own towers, but mostly rely on the pre-existing Vodacom infrastructure. Virgin Mobile doesn't have an infrastructure and simply piggyback off of whichever network is available. .
That Virgin mobile is said to be the cheapest for data usage suggests that the other networks are ripping us off since Virgin is simply re-selling bandwidth from those, more expensive, networks! .
Vodacom is the only network with a 'Vodashop' in every town. Having said that though, their 'customer service' sucks! Since I've switched to MTN, I haven't needed to contact 'customer service' so I don't know if MTN's customer service is any better. But not needing customer service in the first place is a great plus for me! .
What's strange though, is that Vodacom is basically a join venture between Vodafone, arguably the largest mobile service provider outside of the USA, and Telkom, South Africa's only landline service! You'da thought that with all that financial clout and ready-made infrastructure that they'da had the better coverage! .
It looks like they just ride on a strong propaganda machine .
Vodacom regularly advertises their 'broadband' service, among other things, but this service is only available in one or two isolated business centres. It's almost non-existent in residential zones. .
Clearly they only intend to cater for the 'suits' the plant their butts in office chairs for life!. If you're actually mobile, their network is practically useless! .

And all of this has what, exactly, to do with Bolt's bogus speed claims?

I would guess that mobile browsing requires data, and in some parts the cell stretch is different would change browser speeds