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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“Unfortunately you cannot delete the icon which kind of sucks, however, the space it takes up is negligible.”
Negligible or not it’s my freaking phone and Verizon has no right to put anything on it without my permission.
Yeah, it bothers me that Verizon puts installer icons on my phone (myspace, flicker, etc). I know I can hide them, and it isn’t the same as preinstalling the application, but I should be able to delete those.
Someday someone will have a way to do that….
I just wanted to make it clear that I am agreeing with the author. After reading my comment it kind of seems like it is directed at the Rob but it is directed at Verizon…
I just came across this blog in an effort to find out why the !#@$! I had a bing icon on my phone now (a storm) all of a sudden. I am especially angry that I can’t delete the stupid thing. Also have a new My Verizon icon, and for some reason, TWO Vzw Tones icons. WTF?!
Yeah, I hid them. But I want to DELETE them.
I have to say – I clicked on the “bing” icon – just to see what it did and … OMG … the storm now has a voice activated search with location and map support. I have been trying to get google mobile app to work on the storm (but it refuses to download).
The BING app is good – don’t write it off. It took a while to get it to finally download – but I’m keeping it.
Bing is not a match with Google.