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Bing on the iphone! With screenshots

Christopher Peri 12.17.09

bing10Bing is now on the iphone.  Now live in the app store. Its a nice looking app, very well designed.  The maps are smooth, but traffic is kind of hard to read.  The maps fad into each other when they update which is nicer then the snap on the iphone default map, but the iphones is easier to read.  The image on the main page looks like the normal Bing site and there are even little info doors as with the main site. Whats cool here is a little mike in the upper right that allows you to speak you search term. There are 6 buttons on the front, images, movie, maps, businesses, news, and directions. The businesses button is cool.  Click on it and you are given sub menu, then it performs a search for that category in your location.  There is nothing really new here as far as functionality, but the UI design is pretty good. The search results are pretty clean, giving results and a quick image search. Oh, BTW, did I mention its, free?  Yea, in the App store. I'll play with it more later, but for now, on to the screenshots!  More pics here

         

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Christopher Peri
http://www.perivision.net/wordpress

I received my Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Architecture. My focus was on Collaboration in Virtual Environments delving into methods that facilitate designers and engineers to improve communication.
I have an interest in and have worked on rich media web based applications (RIA) since 1995. The last six years has been based in the startup world with less a focus on code and more on strategic direction, company structure and management.

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Thanks. Hadn't seen any

Submitted by Jim Karpen on 12/17/09 4:03pm

Thanks. Hadn't seen any announcement about this. I try to keep tabs on the major Internet-related apps, since this falls within my area of coverage for the print magazine. Just downloaded it and noticed that it has unusually high ratings. Must be good.

Jim

It is good, with exception to

Submitted by Christopher Peri on 12/17/09 5:04pm

It is good, with exception to being able to read the map with traffic overlay.   Also, the mic function does not seem to work all the smoothly now that I have been playing with it a bit.