Bing Adds Three New Apps For Windows Phones: Travel, Food & Drink and Health & Fitness

Bing announced they have added three new Bing apps for the Windows Phone and refreshed several of their other apps. The new apps are Travel, Food & Drink and Health & Fitness. Bing Travel App The Bing Travel App helps you discover places to visit by providing destination guides, rich photos, expert reviews and more. […]

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Bing announced they have added three new Bing apps for the Windows Phone and refreshed several of their other apps. The new apps are Travel, Food & Drink and Health & Fitness.

Bing Travel App

The Bing Travel App helps you discover places to visit by providing destination guides, rich photos, expert reviews and more. You can pin your flights within the app, in order to track your flight status. You can search for hotels with sorting by price, class, proximity, or popularity and read reviews and book a room. You can view current weather conditions and currency conversion rates for your destination, as well as view professional photos and travel photos.

Bing Food & Drink App

The Bing Food & Drink App gives you thousands of recipes from their content partners including AllRecipes, BigOven, Epicurious, Bon Appetit, Saveur, Food52 and more. You can then create and manage multiple shopping lists based on your recipe selection. You can even browse the wine encyclopedia with information on over 1.5 million bottles of wine, 3.3 million tasting notes and hundreds of the most popular cocktail recipes and browse by cocktails by ingredient, flavor profile, glass type and more.

Bing Health & Fitness App

The Bing Health & Fitness App has tools to help you stay fit including:

  • Diet Tracker
  • Cardio Tracker
  • GPS Tracker
  • Symptom Checker
  • Virtual Fitness Instruction
  • Medical Lookup

In addition, Bing also updated the Bing Sports and Bing News apps.

For pictures and more details see the Bing blog.

Related Topics: Channel: Mobile | Microsoft: Bing | Microsoft: Bing Mobile | Microsoft: Windows | Microsoft: Windows Phone


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