The Bing app for BlackBerry has been updated with a few significant new features, including a mobile-optimized image search, instant flight status results, integration with OS 6 (which I presume means universal search, but can’t verify on Rogers for some reason), a filter to cut out naughty results, and a “What’s Nearby” option to browse businesses close to you based on your BlackBerry’s GPS. There’s also that neat Hotspots thing on the Bing homescreen where you can read up on random, quirky bits of information every time you open it before launching into your query.
Bing still offers all the usual stuff, like voice-based queries, maps with directions and traffic, top news headlines, and some neat computational results thanks to a Wolfram|Alpha partnership.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, Google was quick to integrate with the BlackBerry 6 operating system early on, so most folks will probably stick with that unless there’s something about Microsoft’s offer that really revs their engine. I appreciate a little bit of choice, and this app definitely has a bit more style than Google’s, but I’m a creature of habit, and it’ll take a lot more than flight statuses to get me to switch my default search engine.
To give it a shot, you can find Bing in the BlackBerry App World.
[via Bing]