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We usually write about Opera Software’s deals with various mobile operators around the world to offer branded Opera Mini experience to their users. This time however, we talk about Bitstream which signed a deal with Indonesia’s Bakrie Telecom to offer the BOLT mobile web browser to the carrier’s customers.
As you probably know, BOLT works like Opera Mini, processing and compressing the data on servers and then sending web pages to the users’ mobile phones. Bitstream touts its product to be “the most fully-featured Web browser,” offering support for streaming video, flash and HTML5. It relies on WebKit-based rendering engine to deliver a PC-like experience.
Indonesia is a lucrative market to get into. According to the TNS Global Market Research in eight cities in the country, more and more people use Internet on their mobile phones. The usage jumped from 22% in 2009 to 48% in 2010.
Bakrie Telecom will offer BOLT to its customers with the so called Esia phones…
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
