BlackBerry to integrate Bing services at the OS level

Steve Ballmer made an appearance today at BlackBerry World 2011 and after briefly pimping Window Phone on stage, announced a partnership between Microsoft and RIM to integrate Bing into BlackBerry products. In addition to making Bing the default search and map provider for all BlackBerry devices, the functionality will be added at the OS level instead of being included as a series of apps. This will provide features such as voice and location-aware search as well as panorama stitching. It also suggests that we’ll likely see another iteration of the BlackBerry OS beyond version 7 — based on QNX , perhaps? — sometime before the holidays. BlackBerry to integrate Bing services at the OS level originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 May 2011 09:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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