Bing app now available for iPhone

My colleagues over on the Bing team released an iPhone app on Monday. This brings the total number of Microsoft apps currently available for the iPhone to three: there's also the tag reader and Seadragon.

I got to see the new Bing app in action before its official release, and the single word that I would use to describe it is slick. It looks great. It's got the same photo-of-the-day that the website has (albeit in a smaller version that looks gorgeous on your iPhone screen), and the same little boxes for trivia related to the photo. It does a great job of using the features of the iPhone, like location awareness. Search for pizza and you'll get a list of the pizza places around you, along with links to reviews.

One thing that I really like about the Bing app is how they pulled together technology from other corners of the company. The map app uses Seadragon for its pans and zooms, and some technology from another team for its voice recognition.

For more information about it, you can check out the blog post from the Bing team: Bing for mobile comes to the iPhone. You can also download the free app.

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 16, 2009
  Fantastic. But I wanna save picture, can you add this feature?

• Anonymous
  December 22, 2009
  Well, I can't do it, since I'm not on the Bing team.  If you're on Twitter, the Bing folks are there as well (with the username that you'd guess: @bing), so you can tell them directly that you'd like to see it. :)