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Microsoft announced today that the BlackBerry version of Bing for Mobile has been updated, and, in addition to general performance enhancements, several new features including image search, Bing homepage hotspots, flight Instant Answers, Safe Search and “What’s Nearby” have been added to the application.

  • Homepage Hotspots – If you have a little time to spend and want to explore the day’s image, point around it until you find a hotspot. Hidden in the image, hotspots are intended intrigue and inform you. If you look, you’ll find four of them every day. Each gives you a chance to find out more about the subject of the image.
  • Flight Status Instant Answer – Never miss a flight again.  Simply enter your flight number and Bing for mobile will provide you with the status at a glance.
  • Bing Image Search — Find the perfect image while you’re on the go.  Bing Image Search provides you with gorgeously rendered images formatted for easy viewing on your phone.
  • What’s Nearby –Bing for Mobile has a smart experience for finding local listings like restaurants and attractions using your location to serve up “what’s nearby.”

Bing for Mobile is a free BlackBerry application and you can download it by visiting  http://m.bing.com from your mobile browser…

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If you are a BlackBerry Storm user you may have already noticed a new installer icon on your device.  Verizon partnered with Microsoft and is pushing Bing out to the BlackBerry Storm.  Bing comes pre-installed on the BlackBerry Storm2, but, not wanting original Storm users feeling left out, Verizon is making sure that everyone with a touchscreen BlackBerry bearing the Verizon logo is included.

For those of you that don’t want Bing on your BlackBerry Storm simply hide the installer icon.  Unfortunately you cannot delete the icon which kind of sucks, however, the space it takes up is negligible.  RIM, you should really give users the ability to delete unwanted carrier pushed installer icons.  Not doing so really ticks people off and, right now, you need all the good will towards your brand as you can get.

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