According to Droid-Life.com, the next Android powered phone by Verizon will come with Bing Search and Bing Maps.  HTC Merge / Lexikon User Guide reportedly confirms the debut of Bing in the Android world. It will not clear if Bing will be the default search engine of the phone.

The news may be surprising to many readers as Microsoft considers Android as the competitor to its Windows Phone 7 platform.  Microsoft has recently started to introduce Bing in all possible platforms. The Seattle based Software Giant also released Bing App for iPhone last year.

Verizon HTC Merge / Lexikon Android user guide (Credit: Droid-Life.com)

It is not known that when HTC Merge / Lexikon will be released. Even its official name is not confirmed as well. Phone might be called Verizon HTC Lexikon or Verizon HTC Merge.