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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I’ve been on that page a few times on my phone. I’ve got a Treo 650 and Sprint is my provider. I like it, although it does require me to go to 3 separate pages because I have about 7 items on the personalized home page.
I have Sprint PCS and my data plan is only $8 / mo for unlimited use, which is pretty cool.
Even with Sprint, for $15 you get not only unlimited internet, but unlimited txt messages and multimedia messages (like mailing pictures).
Anyway - $8 a month to check my gmail and send emails to anyone is pretty cool. My phone’s camera is junk (like they all seem to be for under $100000000000000) and who needs text messages when you can send emails?
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oh but what do you mean “using the personalized homepage does not require a data plan”? Using any feature that connects you to the web most likely requires a data plan, or else you’ll be charged by the kb for surfing…
But yeah, Sprint is definitely compliant and I have an LG PM-325
Another thing, it would be cool if Google let you have a personalized home page for your cell and one for your usual Internet connection…all under the same account name.
sorry, that should have been “DOES require a data plan”…am correcting now