Bitstream was all proud to announce that their BOLT mobile browser is the first such solution to fully support Indic languages. More precisely, BOLT supports nine languages spoken as a first language by an estimated 1.3 billion people living in India and the surrounding regions — including Hindi (India’s official language), Bengali, Gurumukhi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam and Oriya.
The company goes on suggesting this is the first time a mobile web browser perfectly renders Indic text on a web page. Other mobile browsing solutions either imperfectly render the Indic text on the screen or display a static picture of a web page. As a result, this makes reading text difficult and affects the aesthetic of a website’s design.
Best of all, the support for Indic languages is not just a feature available for the high-end smartphone owners – BOLT works on an array of low-end phones as well as long as they can run Java ME apps, though Brew version is also available.