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Microsoft delivers new Bing updates for Windows Mobile 6.x phones

By | May 11, 2010, 9:42am PDT

Summary: On May 11, Microsoft’s Bing team announced it was introducing tweaks to the Bing application on legacy Windows Phone devices running Windows Mobile 6.x, as well as new turn-by-turn navigation that builds on Bing Maps and Tellme voice technologies.

As Microsoft inches closer to finalizing the Windows Phone 7 operating system, it is continuing to roll out applications of interest to the existing Windows Mobile 6.x user base.

On May 11, Microsoft’s Bing team announced it was introducing tweaks to the Bing application on legacy Windows Phone devices, as well as new turn-by-turn navigation that builds on Bing Maps and Tellme voice technologies.

The Bing home page for Windows Mobile 6.x phone users has gotten a face-lift, as well as improved navigation “to give people faster access to common searches, such as Movies and Traffic,” according to a Bing Community blog post.

When Microsoft rolled out its Bing application for the iPhone late last year, a number of Windows Phone customers complained that the iPhone app was far nicer looking and more useful than the Bing for Windows Phone one.

Microsoft is going to continue to support Windows Phone customers running Windows Mobile 6.x for a few years to come. (I’ve asked for a more precise date; stay tuned.)  But the Mobile team is putting almost all of its backing behind Windows Phone 7 and its successors, which run a different and incompatible (though still Windows Compact-based) operating system.

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RE: Microsoft delivers new Bing updates for Windows Mobile 6.x phones
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Rama.NET 11th May 2010
I am guessing they will support it till the middle of 2012 if not end of 2012.
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raimu koyo asu 5th Jul
There's a fair amount of buzz (by Windows Mobile standards) on the Microsoft Answers forums from folks who are confused about the apparent crippling of the years-old Bing (formerly Live Search) application for Windows Mobile 6.x.
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Linux Love Updated - 15th Sep
As it makes the transition to being a Windows Phone OEM, Nokia is cutting prices of its smartphones in order to buoy sales, according to industry sources speaking to accessmedicalbooks from this we cartecampus to get the internetparalaevangelizacion will have any pcloshwdb that can be estudielenco from Reuters.
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Linux Love 6th Jul
There are no very big cuts per model, but the scale ? across the portfolio ? has not been seen for a very, very long time.
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Linux Love 6th Jul
Nokia has no comment on specific price cuts, but did say that price changes were part of normal business.
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Linux Love 6th Jul
It?s not all bad news for Nokia - Rumor has it that the company is getting $11.50 from Apple for each iPhone sold thanks to a lucrative patent deal.
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Linux Love 6th Jul
There?s never been a better time to pick up a Nokia smartphone.
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RE: Microsoft delivers new Bing updates for Windows Mobile 6.x phones
Linux Love 6th Jul
Lasso allows users to search outside the search box, the Softies said, by circling a desired term and
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Linux Love 6th Jul
otherwise could take them nine (if they rely on the iOS operating system?s cut-and-paste functionality).
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RE: Microsoft delivers new Bing updates for Windows Mobile 6.x phones
Linux Love 6th Jul
What you?re seeing today is only the beginning. Lasso moves Bing beyond the search box.
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Linux Love 6th Jul
Although it will only be available in Bing for iPad to begin with, we?re already thinking about how to take Lasso
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Linux Love Updated - 6th Jul
The refreshed Bing for iPad (version 1.1) is not available outside the U.S. (I believe). When I asked about Microsofts international rollout plans, a spokesperson said: Were working to expand to more markets in the future and will announce additional locations as they ipad bag blog of best sutudeg community the modern education news and become available.
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arabaoyunlari@... 11th Aug
@raimu koyo asu That is really a big question. Google's servers are the heart of Google's business. And it has long been a FEATURE, a FEATURE, not a LOOPHOLE, that one could privately modify the GPL code they use to run their business. Of course web applications are obviously SaaS. But where does one draw the line between those applications and the servers that host them? For example, take an insurance company running open source on their back end servers. At some point they decide to put a customer facing front end on those servers so that customers can access their accounts over the Net. Does that suddenly make that whole kaboodle Saas? If so, I am not sure I am comfortable with AGPL. In fact, I am not sure I am comfortable with this concept anyway since it undercuts one of the few provisions that make GPL software highly attractive to businesses that are not engaged in reselling the software itself. It really compromises the spirit of the GPL in some ways
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bevcat 11th May 2010
Mary Jo,

Has Microsoft given you any indication of their plans for non-phone mobile PDA type devices that currently run the Windows Mobile 6.5. Basically the old PocketPC market. I work in an industry that uses a lot of these for high-end GPS work. Seems like FedEx, UPS, etc use these along with many vertical markets.
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winux_sap 11th May 2010
MJ, I can't believe you didn't mention about the great feature here - Turn by turn navigation!! Bing update has given turn-by-turn voice navigation to 6.x devices!! I actually tested it in my hd2 and it just amazing for a first build. And also it finds location faster than before. happy
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RE: Microsoft delivers new Bing updates for Windows Mobile 6.x phones
AdamzP 11th May 2010
@winux_sap Yeah, the free text-to-speech turn by turn GPS navigation features with free live traffic avoidance is a HUGE new feature. Here's a video of it: http://pocketnow.com/software-1/video-bing-navigation-in-action

If this was something Google did, it would be all over the news.

The implications for having this integrated with Windows Phone 7 are also VERY exciting.
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winux_sap 12th May 2010
@AdamzP : I know! I mean, no major tech-site did anything more than just mentioning it(and some shockingly didn't even mention it). Only pocketnow did a video review of it. But then, even MS didn't make a big fanfare for it - so it's kinda sad. Remember when Google introduced, turn-by-turn navigation for Android devices - boy, the techblogs went nuts - predicting the demise of GPS devices. Simply sad.
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RE: Microsoft delivers new Bing updates for Windows Mobile 6.x phones
scottrudy Updated - 27th Jul 2010
Looks like that time is July 1, 2010. The bing application no longer works on my HTC Touch Pro. It displays the message

"Sorry, the bing application isn't supported on this device. Go to m.bing.com in your browser instead?"

See the HP blog for more information and a labor intensive workaround.
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Microsoft disables Bing application for most Windows Mobile 6.x users
bvolt 1st Aug 2010
There's a fair amount of buzz (by Windows Mobile standards) on the Microsoft Answers forums from folks who are confused about the apparent crippling of the years-old Bing (formerly Live Search) application for Windows Mobile 6.x.

Microsoft's announcement of new functionality on certain phone models was a euphemism for their actual intent to entirely limit the program's usage to those phones. Previous versions are effectively disabled when they phone home, displaying a message that the user should instead use the web application with their browser (eliminating the possibility that their GPS will be used) before they shut down.

It's quite difficult to imagine how Microsoft came to this decision with any sort of logical reasoning.

Ms. Foley, can you get to the bottom of this?
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