Bolt Mobile Browser 2.0 comes with tabbed browsing

Bitstream has announced Beta availability of BOLT 2.0, the next generation of the BOLT mobile browser, the most fully featured browser for mobile phones of all types.

Among the new features in the BOLT 2.0 Beta version is tighter integration with Facebook – by far the most popular domain visited by BOLT users around the world – including the ability to use Facebook’s instant messaging service and to seamlessly copy text or links and post them to a Facebook account directly from within the BOLT browser. The most important new feature of BOLT 2.0 is the addition of tabbed browsing, letting people simultaneously browse multiple websites and easily switch between them. Additional notable upgrades in BOLT 2.0 include a faster widget gallery with updated user interface and a server upgrade to WebKit 4.03.

Bolt Mobile Browser 2.0 Features
+ Perfect rendering of Web pages on any class of phone, scoring 100 percent on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test.
+ Streaming video from many of the world’s most popular video sharing websites, including YouTube, MySpace, Blip.TV and MetaCafe, as well as websites that stream videos such as CNN, ESPN and any website with embedded YouTube videos.
+ Super fast download speeds.
+ Copy and pasting text.
+ Built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook.
+ Password manager.
+ Download/Upload manager.
+ Ability to run Web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, ranging from Google docs to Mafia Wars.
+ The inclusion of widgets, standalone mobile applications that are run directly from the browser, such as a weather app, calendar app, calculator, Twitter client and others. These widgets let people using any phone take part in the mobile apps revolution.
+ Best of breed over-the-air data compression, resulting in faster load times and decreased data usage.
+ Patented split screen viewing to make surfing complicated Web pages simple, and viewing content on the smallest of screens easy.

The BOLT 2.0 Beta can be downloaded for free at http://boltbrowser.com/beta/download.html. People can still download BOLT 1.7 and BOLT Lite for free at http://boltbrowser.com.