Bing for Mobile updated

By George Wong on 11/02/2011 13:53 PDT

Bing Android Bing users will be pleased to know that the Bing for Mobile app has just received a brand new update today. The update attempts to close the gap between the regular Bing mobile website and the Bing for Mobile app on all devices with the use of more HTML5 within the native app itself. Microsoft wants users to have the same Bing experience regardless of whether they’re using it on an iPhone or an Android device.

In addition to tighter HTML5 integration, the update to the Bing app includes new features such as: Maps/List Split View (which lets users view business listings and directions and a map in a single view to make it easy to see what you’re searching for), Deals (for all you bargain hunters), Video Domain for the iPhone, and Transit/Real-Time for Android.

The app is currently available for iOS and Android in the US, though they plan to bring this new Bing to BlackBerry and Windows Phone devices in the near future.

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Android Android is mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license.

iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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