Google Personalized Homepage Goes Mobile

The ever fabulous Google Personalized homepage is now available for your cell phone. With the mobile homepage you can preview your latest Gmail messages, see headlines from top news sources, get weather forecasts, stock quotes, and movie showtimes, and choose from a variety of popular RSS and Atom feeds. To get to this homepage, you go to google.com on your cell phone’s browser, click the link to the Personalized Home, and sign in to your Google account. Your Google Personalized homepage will display. Your phone must support xHTML in order for this to work.

I was pretty excited about this news, as you can imagine. I realize this has been available for weeks, so please don’t bother leaving one of those "you’re so behind the times" comments. What I really want to know is if it works on your phone, and if so, who’s your carrier and what model phone do you use? So far, I’ve been getting "this page cannot be displayed" on my phone…and I thought the Motorola Razr was a modern phone! I’ll have to try again later just to make sure that the problem isn’t with T-Mobile. Using the Personalized Homepage does not require a data plan to get the login page to display, but apparently it does require a data plan to show your personalized content. Quite frankly, I’m a little annoyed it won’t work.

Speaking of the whole data plan thing - that’s another thing bugging me lately. In order to use many new and cool services on my cell, I would have to purchase a data plan for $20/month. Way too pricey.

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