Windows Live Search for Mobile Beta
I have to thank Austin for pointing me to this great app. This is a mobile version of Microsoft’s popular Live search. I’m not going to bother about functionality details since you can find all sorts of blogs discussing it. The main thing that I want to point out is that I was skeptical at first since I’ve downloaded a hundred different apps on my Cingular 8125 and have never been highly impressed. This time it was different. The pure usability of this product is amazing and there are some very rich effects that you don’t normally see from a mobile app.
If you use the Categories functionality you’ll see a very cool drill-down effect similar to the Macintosh tree control that pans horizontally. The Directions functionality is very appealing and usable for a mobile device. The turn-by-turn display of directions in a list with very intuitive icons is NICE. Of course this can be switched into map view, which has a nice route overlay.
I haven’t used the J2ME version yet, but will be looking into that shortly. I can’t see how it will even compare with the Windows Mobile version. At any rate, if you have a Java or Windows Mobile device I highly recommend checking it out. I’ve barely touched the surface of this killer app, but am looking forward to using it out in the real world.
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Thanks, Dennis! Glad that you liked the app…feel free to shoot me an email if you’ve got any questions or requests!
sir,
I live in pakistan, a country near india. I have this windows mobile on which I have downloaded google map’s application. the application is running fine, however when I try to activate the gps, it just don’t work. my phone happens to have a gps icon in the settings option. does this means that my phone (O2-XDA) has a built-in gps device. if yes, then could u please tell me how to configure it with the google map’s application.
thanks.
imran