Bing’s Android incarnation is similar to its computer counterpart. It opens up with an “image of the day.” You can gaze at up to seven days of past images with a finger flick. In addition, as with Google mobile search, you can perform voice searches by having the phone turn your speech into text.
Microsoft has a Bing iPhone app. But it’s unclear how this “exclusive” Verizon-only Bing mobile app will differ – if at all – from what’s available on the iPhone.
No mention was made by Microsoft of offering the app to other carriers offering Android phones, but it’s hard to believe that Verizon would agree to pre-install the app on new mobiles without getting something in return–such as exclusivity–from Microsoft.
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