BINGberry =bitter pie

Verizon Wireless pushed out a new app to it's RIM Blackberry users on December 16th. Some of you may have noticed an orange bing logo on your handsets desktop. This wasn't actually the new app, but an installer for a new app. Once you click on it Bing is installed on your device promising powerful search features and mapping content.
I figured why not. Microsoft has been batting 1000 lately so I will give it a chance.
Now having had the Bing app for a month it has to go.
It looks very nice. Wonderful job done in the UI side of things. Very Stylish.
the searches provide very nice results and are helpful and relevant to what I am looking for.
Reasons it has to go;

1. Slow to the point of pain- It takes too long for Bing to find and display search results. when one of the search results is a location and a map is going to be displayed you may as well order a refill of that coffee.
   
2. Crashes badly- When you try to just say screw it and exit to the blackberry desktop before it finishes fetching content (maybe to get a faster result from google?) Bing just folds in on its self like the house at the end of Poltergeist. Usually necessitating the blackberry equivalent of the 3 finger salute; depress silver button, slide back cover up, pull battery down and out, re-insert battery, wait for your berry to finish re-booting.
   
3. Maps are not any better than Google-The splash screen graphics are pretty and follow the same graphic conventions as bing.com. which is stupid. This is a mobile device! Even at 3G speeds this is too much data to be fetching. Especially when I am trying to find the Caltrain stop in South San Francisco (which is pretty well hidden!). The Google maps app on my Blackberry is easily 10 times faster. Google maps satellite view displays much better and is easier to navigate by.
   
4. Can't get rid of the Bing Icon-So the affair is over. Or should I say fling? Bing is a pig, hogs the covers and flirts with my roomates. I go to the uninstall page and yank that sucker out of there. Fleeing back to the waiting arms of google. Go back to the desktop to be greeted by...the same Bing icon. Even after it is uninstalled, the Bing installer will still hang out on your desktop. You can not remove it. All that you can do is "hide" it. It will still be there later on when you click"show all". Ready to be re-installed as if you had never had this awful experience.