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Bing widget goes live in the Ovi Store

5 replies · 2,740 views · Started 08 July 2009

Launched today in Nokia's Ovi Store is a free Bing widget:- you'll recall that this is Microsoft's next-gen answer to Google's main search site. Offering Web, Mobile web, News, Images and Videos, the tabbed interface gives you results almost instantly, since content is cached for each tab/data type. Some screens and comments below.

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Sadly, the landscape view in S60 5th Edition is the main culprit here - EVERYTHING in landscape mode is ugly because of those silly supersize buttons. They may be super-finger-friendly, but they're also way too large and inefficient, IMHO....

I wish it offered the same functionality as the winmo version of the bing app. It provides lots of easy search options including a local searching options that uses the phone gps to show local stores, restaurants, etc.