Browser:BOLTOM 4.2
Does it force the user to reload pages?+-
Simultaneous pages kept in RAM memory- (no in-memory caching at all)+ (depends on size; in general, up to 30)
Page loading speed from serverGenerally, very good to excellentGenerally, acceptable to excellent; sometimes poor, though
Once loaded, speed of positioning to the textCan be very cumbersome, esp. on low-res, no-touchscreen, slow models like the BB 8800. VGA WinMo touchscreen devices fare far better.+: generally, it only takes 2-3 quick button presses to quickly zoom into text and position to the text body
Favorite synchronization-+ (Opera Link; can be – manually – synced even with non-Opera desktop browsers)
Dynamic zoom in/out from text reading-+ (in the default, non-One Column mode)
Text reflowingIn cases, highly inferior to OM – must use far smaller chars to avoid having to horizontally scroll – even with Mobile View enabledIn general, excellent: works just great in non-one column mode with most sites; if it doesn’t, then, One column helps this.
Scrolling: Quick positioning to top/bottomBlackBerry: + (T/B, respectively); WinMo: - (not even the hardware keyboard works – except for the numeric keys)+ (repeatedly pressing #3 – or simulating it with an assigned hotkey)
(Touchscreen devices): Scrollable scrollbar-+ (they take up quite a lot of screen estate, though)
Does it try to keep the horizontal alignment while vertical scrolling (see explanation HERE)?-+
Real rubberband & inertia on touchscreen devices (see explanation HERE)?--
Characters: VGA WinMo devices: maximal charsize (see the reason for this HERE) running under THIS hacked JbedIt uses its own charset; therefore, much smaller than OM’sMuch bigger than BOLT’s
Quality of custom charset: readability vs. (small) sizeBetter than OMSlightly worse than BOLT
Internationalization support-: As it uses its own characters, the size settings are more dynamic but no support for non-Western languages at any charsize+: It relies on the system characters, except for the small charset. No Western support in the latter.
WinMo: Emulating / using the keyboard to enter stuff: Entering shortcuts on virtual keyboard (brought up by assigned hotkey)- (keyboard is minimized at once)See BOLT – caused by Jbed