Have you ever heard of something known as Bing Rewards? Not yet familiar, No problem that’s why we are here to tell you. A week ago users started receiving mobile credits on using bing from their Windows Phone 8.1. But this was not clear to us until the Bing Official site made it clear few days ago.
Bing Rewards program is a program by Microsoft in which you receive credit on the usage of Bing search engine. The more you use the more you get rewards. These credit rewards can be used to redeem gifts from sites like Amazon, you can even buy extra storage on One Drive via credits. The purpose of this whole program is to make you addicted to bing.com. Where as you always intentionally type google.com, now you will type bing.com to search. And to get better Bing Experience.
There were initially two issues with Bing Rewards. The first and the major one was that the Bing Rewards didn’t worked for Windows Phone this was a very sensitive issue. Yet it did worked on iOS and Android via apps. And the second problem was that it didn’t worked outside US region. The issue regarding the Windows Phone is fixed now but we still have no confirmations on when Microsoft expanding Bing Rewards to World Wide. If Microsoft want to engage and get their market strong across the world they need to show that they are doing it.
With Windows Phone 8.1 support users could easily collect Bing Rewards when ever Cortana uses Bing to search for anything. You can always go to Bing Rewards Dashboard and see how much have you collected under rewards section. If you are using Windows Phone 8.1 then you are a lucky user because the rewards you get is much more than you use it through your PC. And Windows Phone 8.0 and Windows Phone 7.8 users we are really sorry that you wont be getting Bing Rewards. Windows Phone 8 users you can still get Windows Phone 8.1 on your Windows Phone. So catch up the link how to upgrade your Windows Phone 8 to Windows Phone 8.1 and Enjoy. You can visit Official Bing Rewards site on your smartphone and get more information there.