It is possible to use Bing on your iPhone or iPod Touch
December 17th, 2009 | Published on: News
It is possible to use Bing on your iPhone or iPod Touch
As we’ve known for quite some time, Microsoft was seriously interested in extending its Bing navigator and Windows Live Messenger for Apple’s portable devices (for iPod as well as for iPhone). The interesting news for the users of these devices and for those who prefer Microsoft’s search engine over Google’s, is that it was moved forward the launch of at least one of these applications and now it is possible to use Bing on Apple mobiles.
This important initiative from the Redmond Company, allows us to use the famous search engine Bing directly on the mobile screen and with the same functionality as in the computer.Moreover, as we got used by Bing.com, it is also displayed on the device screen with the “daily image” as the background.
Being used from an iPhone or an iPod, one of the main advantages of its use in portable devices is that the application allows us to use the voice recognition technology to start a search (although it only recognizes words in English at the moment, it is expected that after its use and popularity increase, new languages will be added). The application also allows the use, of course, of the alphanumeric touch keyboard of the device to search.
One of the standout features by the thousand users that already use this Bing application on their iPods or iPhones is that it can detect our location, allowing us to navigate though maps and search news, images, addresses and shops that are near from where we are.
Another important thing to point out about the mobile Bing is that it offers the possibility to search roads between one point and the other, choosing different alternatives like: the shortest route, the fastest, the one with less traffic (only available on the US at the moment), etc.
As regards the technical parts that makes it easy to use and navigate through the maps using the device, Microsoft highlighted that the application resorts to the SeaDragon technology power to achieve really fluent transactions when moving maps and images or when zooming them, avoiding the annoying loading “frame by frame” (as it happens with Google Maps).
It seems that the complementarity of applications among portable devices and computers is a matter that big companies are taking very seriously to keep them alive on the market. Microsoft and Apple, two of the companies that in other markets seem far way, here they are giving strong steps, and they were able to show that with this launch, which is expected to be the first of many other applications.
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