Bing goes iPhone with localisation-aware voice hunting
Dec 18, 2009 blackberry, iphone, nokia, phones
There are already a few iPhone apps that use Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Bing hunting locomotive engine to scour the vane, so it only makes sense that Microsoft launch a proper Bing iPhone app in the AppStore – nevermind the fact that Microsoft is developing mobile applications for its arch-competitor’s mobile operating system. Today, Microsoft is devising it easier to wade through hunting locomotive engine “haphazardness” with an iPhone app that delivers relevant search results to your iPhone. Bing for iPhone lets you search for map locations, businesses, movies/film times, newsworthiness, and even images using the keyboard or you voice. The part hunting isn’t as accurate as we’d like to see, but it usually gets the business done just fine (check the video recording for a demonstration).
The Bing iPhone app serves up a homepage simulacrum whenever you launching the app. Tapping the homescreen hides the navigation controls and replaces them with grey boxes that, when tapped, offer up interesting tidbits of information related to the simulacrum. The image search lineament splashes the daily image on the blind and offers up related images as thumbnails. Movie search automatically keys in on your locations and inclination all the movies playing in your surface area, complete with film ratings. The newsworthiness search feature is fairly straightforward, but probably North Korean won’t be replacing Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News anytime soon. You tin can hunting or browse nearby businesses with the business search feature, and then get directions to the business with a dab of the “directions” tab.
C. H. Best of all, you can search for anything in the Bing iPhone app exploitation just your voice!
Still, we wealthy person to say that, while putting Bing in easy stretch of the millions of data-hungry iPhone users mightiness be a goodness agency to promote Bing, we’d rather see Microsoft putt more resources into Windows Mobile River 7.
Bing for iPhone (FREE) [iTunes link]
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