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Just days after Microsoft cranked out a touch-optimized Bing search page for touch screen phones comes another announcement for mobile searchers. Microsoft on Monday reported that Verizon will roll out the first Bing mobile app to BlackBerry Storm 1 users. The Bing mobile app already comes preloaded on the BlackBerry Storm 2.
After Verizon pushes Bing for mobile, Storm owners should be able to click the icon in the program list to get started.
In addition to search are features carried over from a former incarnation of Microsoft's search app, Windows Live for mobile, such as voice search, and a map that includes driving directions, traffic details, and a location feature to search your whereabouts. There's also a way to save favorite searches, and to quickly get at local searches.
We first encountered a variation of the Bing app on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones. While many features are nearly identical to the Windows Live mobile app, the refreshed search engine should produce more accurate results.
Jessica Dolcourt reviews the latest and greatest smartphone apps, in addition to a healthy dose of Windows software. E-mail Jessica and follow her on Twitter.
Bing Mobile's PITA interface and 7 YO aerial maps (and older!) make this a head-shaker.
Verizon - leave your PDAs and BBs freakin' alone!
I actually found it useful, albiet a lil slow. But it's faster than using a web browser to lookup phone numbers or local businesses. Bonnie Cha said it crashed while using the Bing app, but I've had no problems so far. Maybe that's a Storm 2 issue, not sure.
?Karleton Helfer is a fabulous Marketing and Sales Professional and a top producer. He was a team player on every project and a joy to work with.? - Cheri Mason Naudin , Manager, Direct and Inside Sales , AirTouch Communications / Verizon Wireless
managed Karleton at AirTouch Communications / Verizon Wireless
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by yeomanrycavalry
January 5, 2010 9:21 AM PST
- I am angry at Verizon as I deleted Bing thinking it was just an application that I didn't want. Not only that I would click on Bing and it wouldn't even load. So now I have NO browser at all. To make matters even worse is that I am overseas and was using the international data plan which now I can no longer do. I think Verizon's customer service has seriously slipped downhill since this piece of garbage called the Storm came out from RIM. No access to a lot of Internet content due to no flash player, etc. is just more than irritating, it's simply unacceptable. The worse thing now is this forcing of Bing on its user is a real shame. I hate Bing and want my default that I chose to go back to Google when the phone's browser actually worked.
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