{"id":14837,"date":"2011-08-22T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=14837"},"modified":"2011-08-22T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:52:02","slug":"bings-rich-mobile-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/14837\/","title":{"rendered":"Bing’s Rich Mobile Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"Bing$ <\/a>\u00a0 $\"Bing$ <\/a>\u00a0 $\"Bing$ <\/a>\u00a0 $\"Bing$ <\/a><\/p>\n

The mobile edition of Microsoft’s Bing search engine (m.bing.com<\/a>) was updated recently with a bunch of new features borrowed from Bing’s desktop page and Google’s mobile search webapp including:<\/p>\n

Background image of the day with floating “Explore” menu<\/li>\n

Search suggestions appear as you type<\/li>\n

Location enabled on Android and iOS<\/li>\n

Image search results as a grid of thumbnails<\/li>\n

Tabbed results pages with tabs for All, Images, Shopping, Local etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The new interface shows up on the iPhone and iPad and Android, WebOS, BlackBerry OS 6 and Windows Phone 7 devices. \u00a0Other browsers, including some very capable ones like Opera Mobile and the \u00a0Symbian Anna, bada and Nokia N900 and N9 browsers, get Bing’s rather plain legacy mobile site.<\/p>\n
The new Bing version seemed quite responsive even on a older, low spec HTC Magic Android phone. It’s certainly attractive and even a bit of fun to use. \u00a0The only thing I don’t care for are dark gray on black tab labels which I\u00a0unnecessarily\u00a0hard to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The mobile edition of Microsoft’s Bing search engine (m.bing.com) was updated recently with a bunch of new features borrowed from Bing’s desktop page and Google’s mobile search webapp including: Background image of the day with floating “Explore” menu Search suggestions appear as you type Location enabled on Android and iOS Image search results as a grid of thumbnails Tabbed results pages with tabs for All, Images, Shopping, Local etc. The new interface shows up on the iPhone and iPad … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[814,418,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14837"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14852,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions\/14852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}