Bing Mobile
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Bing for mobile application on Windows Phone 7
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Stable release |
5.1.2010.5040 / November 5, 2010
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| Operating system | Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry OS, iOS, BREW, Android, T-Mobile Sidekick, Series 30+, Series 40, Nokia Asha platform |
| Type | Web search engine, map application |
| License | Freeware (Ad-supported) |
| Website | m |
Bing for mobile (formerly Live Search Mobile) is a search tool for handheld mobile devices from Microsoft as part of their Bing search engine. It is designed for mobile device displays. Bing Mobile is built into Windows Mobile and Windows Phone as proprietary software, accessed via the Search key on Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 devices. It is also available on Windows Phone 8.1 (and integrated with Microsoft Cortana where available), and can be downloaded for other platforms, including iOS and Android.
There are three ways Bing can be accessed on mobile devices:
With the launch of Windows Phone the new operating system included the Bing Hub, a centralised hub for contextual web searches and Bing Maps for navigation built in which gained some additional features such as showing users real-time traffic updates, street-view photos, 3D graphics and directions. To make Windows Phone hardware more uniform Microsoft requires all Windows Phones feature a dedicated "Search button" that opens up Bing Mobile.
With Windows Phone 7.5, the first major update to Windows Phone Microsoft included several new features to the Bing Hub including the new Bing Vision application that allows users to scan QR Codes, books, price tags, and various other items but unlike Google Goggles can't scan any object due to its limited functionality, other than scanning objects Bing Vision comes with a built in version of the Bing Translator that can scan texts and translate it into the phone's language, Engadget did a test they scanned the back cover a book and it only picked up about 90 percent of the words in the summary after the text was found, Bing Vision's translation feature supports 26 languages. Bing Maps also received new features namely the Bing Local Scout which takes a look at businesses around the user's location and gives them a list of local restaurants, bars and shopping centres. The Bing Hub can also open up Bing Local Scout and got a new feature addition in Windows Phone 7.5 called Bing Audio, a service similar to Shazam which can recognise songs and show the album in the Zune Marketplace. A notable difference between the Bing Hub and the website is the lack of Bing Travel.
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