Bing!

Well the title says it all! Bing is getting some great improvements in Mango! We'll get access to "Bing Vision", "Bing Audio", Turn by turn voice navigation and the new "Bing indoor maps"!

Bing vision is kind of neat, it's a lot like google goggles if anyone who reads this blog has played with that. it will let us scan bar codes, QR codes and Microsoft Tags. It will let us take a picture of a DVD, or book, or movie poster and then search Bing for things that relate to said object (like buying it on amazon).

Bing audio is a bit more of a mystery from what people can tell it's like Shazaam or Midomi and you hold your phone near a speaker and it tells you the song that's playing. Wonder if it will tie in with the Zune marketplace so you can find a song then download that song right from inside Bing. That would be swell.

Turn by turn voice navigation for Bing maps will be mighty handy. Don't think I need to go into too much detail here I'm sure everyone has seen a GPS before.

Finally there's the new Bing indoor maps. Ever go to a mall and wander around in circles about five or six times wondering where the hell EB Games is? No more! Bing fixes this (at least in the states at the moment, nothing good ever makes it up here to canada) You will be able to pull up an indoor map of most shopping centers complete with where the different stores are. That's pretty damn cool.

Oh! Market!

It's here it's finally happened! FreewarePC released an app-store styled app! Check it out it's called "O!Market" (link and photos at bottom of page) This is one of the smoothest marketplace apps I have ever seen. Every app is free and it runs a one touch download and install engine keeping things simple. As an added bonus this thing will keep track of what you've installed and let you know if it finds any updates for them.

After playing with O!Market for awhile I've found some neat and some trivial apps, everyone’s favorite kinds.

For starters lets take a look at PockeTwit a twitter app that lets you post messages as well as photos and links to several micro blogging sites.

Then there’s NeoReader the hundred in one scanner program that can pick up Data Matrix, EAN, UPC, Aztec Codes you name it. It can be a little tricky to aim but is pretty quick when it works.

Waze is also a neat app that expands upon the phones GPS giving full turn by turn instructions and will actually speak street names. Just note Waze requires true GPS not AGPS that some phones use.

Then there is SonarCE. I'm not one hundred percent sure why one needs sonar on their smartphone but now you can just please remember the Omnia us NOT waterproof. Yup.

That’s about all for now thanks for reading and I look forwards to more of your comments!

Note: O!Market download at This site
Screenshots later.