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It was more or less a clone of Opera mini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_browser, http://cellphonequick.com/bolt-browser-3-0-now-available-at-...) running on Webkit (and some people argue that Opera should do it too).

bolt renders webpages like firefox on Pc.... i don't see how it clones opera mini

The strength of Opera mini are Opera's servers that precompute and massively shrink any web page for you[1] using their proprietary OBML. So did Bolt[2]. Firefox on PC don't use any Mozilla servers to render the page for you. Neither does Firefox on Mobile. These really are two classes of web browsers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_browser#Data_compression

I used this browser quite a bit. It was very good. It rendered fonts beautifully and it played media inline, without launching a new media player.

These are advantages over Opera Mini.

Also, it used Webkit as its core rendering engine (as opposed to Opera)

So it was really good!

It's the first time I've read about this browser, has anybody experienced it, what can you tell about it?

Bolt Browser discontinued