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Another shot of the LG Vortex for Verizon has eeked out again, but this time we’ve got a nice shot of the device’s homescreen. As we expected, Bing seems to be the device’s search and maps service of choice (though you can “fix” this using the Android market, if you want.) It’ll supposedly be shipping [...]

There’s hope yet! Verizon’s caught wind of all of the commentary going around the blogosphere (from writers and readers alike) regarding Bing on their Android devices. Namely, the Samsung Fascinate was launched with Bing preloaded as the default search engine with no apparent way to change it. I can vouch for others’ professed difficulty in [...]

It turns out that Bing, the popular search engine from Microsoft, will not be the only search engine on all future Android phones. Verizon reported to LaptopMag that Bing will

Bing has announced, they have made their mobile app available today from the Verizon tab, in the Marketplace on your Verizon Android phone. The app has the standard Bing image of the day, with built in trivia, and the ability to see the images from up to 7 days earlier. You can also search for [...]

Microsoft’s today announced the official availability of the Bing app for Android. The app – which is free to download – will only show up in your Android market if you’re using a Verizon phone so don’t get too mad if you can’t find it (that would also tip us off to the fact that [...]

Microsoft’s reportedly working on a Bing app for Android. Microsoft’s Decision Engine already claims home on many other mobile operating systems (including Microsoft’s own WinMo) so a move to Android would make a lot of sense. The plans were murmured at Microsoft’s Bing Search Summit taking place in San Francisco. Microsoft isn’t announcing a lot [...]

Burning the midnight oil at about 2am I saw the huge news that Motorola Android Phones would feature Bing and wrote up a lengthy article exploring what the move would mean for Google, Android and consumers. I didn’t realize it would be this bad… While we knew the Motorola/Microsoft partnership would be aimed at countries [...]

According to Reuters Motorola and Microsoft [MSFT] have formed a partnership that will see Microsoft

We recently learned that AT&T had taken Android’s precious Google Search bar and incorporated Yahoo Search instead – a virtual “in ‘yo face” to the search engine giant. But hey, them’s the rules and AT&T is playing by them, right? Well now Motorola could be playing that same game. A vague (and somewhat awkward) Reuters [...]