Bing’s new apps bring health, happiness and holidays to your Windows Phone 8

By now, New Year’s resolutions to get fit, take a cooking course or see more of the world are all but a distant memory. Cold winter days and busy lives can make it difficult to stay motivated. However, Bing has now released three apps for Windows Phone 8 providing tools to help keep these resolutions on track – Bing Health & Fitness, Bing Food & Drink and Bing Travel.

All three include the same features and content of the Windows 8.1 PC and tablet apps, plus a few new additions such as roaming. This new feature lets you sync all your personal settings across Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8 devices. Simply log in with the same Microsoft Account on all devices and set synchronisation to synchronise your information and settings across all your screens.

Bing Health
&
Fitness for Windows Phone 8

Bing Health & Fitness is designed to be an all-in-one tool for wellness. The app brings together nutrition, fitness and medical information, hundreds of workouts and tools that can be customised to make smart choices for a healthier you. The apps can automatically update so that your progress is tracked across all Windows devices. So if you use the GPS tracker in your Windows Phone 8 app on your run, once you’re done it will automatically sync all the details like the distance you ran, calories burned etc across any Windows 8.1 that you have the app installed on. As well as GPS it has a diet tracker and cardio tracker installed so you can monitor your input vs output and make sure you’re on target to achieve your health goals.

There’s also the more than 1,000 fitness instruction videos for workouts like strength training, yoga and Pilates.

The Bing health and fitness app offers fitness instruction February 19, 2014

Bing Food
&
Drink for Windows Phone 8

Bringing the Bing Food & Drink app to Windows Phone means there is now access to the more than 600,000 recipes from leading culinary content partners including Great British Chefs and AllRecipes.co.uk on your mobile, as well as now being able to create and manage shopping lists between devices. There’s also the wine encyclopaedia with information on over 1.5 million bottles of wine, 3.3 million tasting notes and hundreds of the most popular cocktail recipes if you’re looking for something nice to go with your meal while you’re at the supermarket.

Bing Travel for Windows Phone 8

You can now use the Bing Travel app on your Windows Phone 8 to get all the latest travel information including destination and hotel reviews, booking your flights and hotels and you can even see your flight status in real-time at a glance by pinning a Live Tile to your home screen. It also features weather updates and conversion rates for your chosen destination so you can make sure you’re getting the sunny break you were hoping for.

What’s more, roaming updates to the existing Bing apps on Windows Phone 8 (Bing Finance, Bing Sport and Bing News) mean you can now sync settings across your Windows devices and stay on top of what matters most to you; from real-time financial news to live match-ups and player profiles.

The Bing Travel app for Windows Phone February 19, 2014