Talk:Bing Mobile

Bing Mobile

I work on the product management team for Bing. Just edited this entry to bring it up to date with our current product line. Ideally this article would be renamed to "Bing for mobile." We'll look at creating a separate entry from scratch as suggested below. Shelmac (talk) 20:30, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

This article has been changed to Bing Mobile. I reverted the edits because Bing Mobile is a separate application (as of now at least). Suggestion is to make a separate article for Bing Mobile from scratch as it appears to differ a lot from Live Search Mobile. As of present, Bing Mobile appears to be a small "browser-like" version that does not have the same features as Live Search Mobile. I have not found any information of a merge of the two applications either. Rasmasyean (talk) 04:15, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Please refer to http://www.discoverbing.com/behindbing/productGuide.aspx#st_mobile for information regrading the rebrand of both Bing Mobile services - the mobile web-browser version AND the downloadable mobile application. Live Search Mobile has been fully rebranded as Bing Mobile. New version of the application will be available soon according to the website.

Direct quote from the website: "Bing for Mobile is available in two versions — one for online access via the browser and the other as a downloadable application. Both versions excel with local searches and mapping, and search results are formatted for smaller screens. Bing for Mobile is the updated version of Bing Search Mobile. We aren’t announcing any new features at this time, but new versions of the application will be released soon."

This article is about BOTH the mobile web-browser version and the application. Please refrain from moving the article. --Pikablu0530 (talk) 05:22, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, whatever it claims...it has NOT been done. Wikipedia is not for guessing the state of future transformations of current applications. You can perhaps make an article that describes software not released yet...like Windows 7, but as of present, Live Search Mobile still exists in it's current form. Besides, none of the features listed on the article other than the "web" part are in Bing Mobile (which I've provided some updates for). Live Search Mobile is not just a "search engine" like Bing Mobile. It's part of the Windows Live Services applications. By the same reasoning, you can't just change all Windows Live pages to Windows Bing...until it happens (if it actually does). What you can do is create a new Bing Mobile article and have a link to Live Search Mobile saying that a new version will be created that will merge/replace Live Search Mobile. And, also I have a phone and just personally updated it and it doesn't turn into "Bing Search Mobile". The "globe" opens a browser to m.bing.com, but that's about it. Rasmasyean (talk) 05:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

This is not "guessing" but a confirmed rebrand that has already been partially taken place. Your confusion regarding Windows Live, a different entity, with Bing (search engine) demonstrates the fact that you have limited knowledge of the subject being discussed. Live Search has been completely rebranded to Bing - and this includes its Mobile services. As mentioned in my reply and indicated in the source provided above, Live Search Mobile has been fully rebranded as Bing Mobile and a version of the application will be available soon according to the website. This is a confirmed fact and not purely speculation or "guessing". The fact the updated mobile application has not been released does not imply that the rebrand has not taken place, as the rebrand has been confirmed and documented in the source provided above. The redirect from Live Search Mobile to Bing Mobile should suffice for readers searching for the Live Search Mobile application. There is no need for creating a new article.

I note that you have a history of disruptive edits on Wikipedia. Please refrain from moving the article back and reverting edits. Use the talk page before conducting any further edits. --Pikablu0530 (talk) 07:24, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

My "disruptive edit" is a result of once not knowing how to use the edit tools a long time ago. Have it your way. If the application does not become "Bing Mobile" in 1 week, it goes back to "Live Search Mobile" until a release. Regardless of what that site says will happen, you are wrong in that this application is titled "Bing Mobile". The proper way to maintain the article would be to have a note that Live Search Mobile is slated to become Bing Mobile and reference the site. You should know that as a Wikipedian. Rasmasyean (talk) 08:32, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

iOS

the iOS section needs to be edited. Nowhere is the iPad included. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.188.56.110 (talk) 01:42, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Mobile browsing

I've been looking for sources everywhere using regular Bing and Bing News, though using "Live Search" instead of "Bing" could help for the more historical parts of the article I still have trouble finding sources, and I know that I can't use this as a reference but it's probably one of the only sources I can find on the topic that isn't a primary source (which I avoid using as the plague). --Hoang the Hoangest (talk) 04:14, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

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