Mobile browser firm, Bitstream Inc’s new browser version 1.7 to be released at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will support widgets for web applications.

Loading and execution will become faster as the Web Apps will be installed directly within the BOLT browser.

“As many of the recent mobile and wireless trade shows have demonstrated, mobile applications are part of the mainstream mobile experience,” said Sampo Kaasila, vice president of research and development at Bitstream.  “However, the vast majority of phones in use today are ‘feature phones’ not smartphones.  Unfortunately for the users of these billions of feature phones, it isn’t easy to find, install and run mobile applications.  By adding Web apps to BOLT, Bitstream is not only improving the usability of our mobile browser, we are also making it possible for literally billions of people to partake in the mobile apps revolution.”

The new version will include some applications in Beta format.