Bing Weather for Windows Phone 8 is one of four apps Microsoft has launched – Bing News, Bing Sports and Bing Finance being the others – for use with Windows Phone 8. We’ve loaded the app on our Nokia Lumia 520 to check out how well it handles, find out more with our Bing Weather for Windows Phone 8 review.
We found this to be quick and effective and if you want to save the results then simply select the ‘+’ icon and you’ll be able to save your search and you’ll easily be able to switch between locations.
In fact, this is the zoom level where the different galleries in the National Gallery of Art National Portrait Gallery/American Art Museum appear. We’ve zoomed in so far that we can tell that art about the Civil War is in the northeast corner of the building. And that’s the first zoom level where we can see that there’s a Metro station across the street.
But at this zoom level, the map is only about a block tall. It’s nearly impossible to see the city in context. Where are other stations? Is a different stop more convenient?
Clearly, the designers have lost sight of where transit information needs to appear in the hierarchy of map data. (Hint: it’s much more important than the location of Civil War art in the National Gallery Portrait Gallery).
All this makes for a simple but informative breakdown of what’s happening. By default Bing Weather presents the weather in Celsius but you can nip into the Settings and change to Fahrenheit if you should wish. You can also choose to switch of the location updates as well as the history for weather searches.
