More google - the Mobile Google homepage
Posted on January 12, 2006
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Wow — been quite week for announcements from the Google folks. And here’s the latest one, “Your Google homepage, to go” aka Google Mobile Personalized Home (gmph! great acronym, lol).
From the “how to use” section:
You’ll need to use the PC version of Google personalized home to choose which content to add to your phone’s homepage. If you haven’t done this yet, click the ‘Personalized Home’ link in the upper-right-hand corner of Google.com (or, just click here).
- Access the mobile web browser on your phone or mobile device (note: this device must support XHTML)
- Type www.google.com in the URL field (if you get an error message, type www.google.com/xhtml)
- Select the ‘Personalized Home’ link, then sign in with your username and password. You’ll see the same customized content modules you’ve chosen on the web.
I won’t even bother trying this with my cell phone. Too spendy and slow to be useful. However, for my PocketPC this is very sweet (well of course I had to try immediately). All my customized gunk flows nicely onto the smaller PPC screen. This is the sort of thing that can make using a hand-held as a browser a much more satisfying experience (and beats the crap out of the custom html pages I’ve used as start pages for years on this thing…).
I’ve mentioned the Pocket PC and cellphone enough lately, along with Yahoo! portable stuff that I’m starting to feel ashamed that I don’t have a mobile category here. Maybe soon?
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your handheld connects through your modem is that right?
Wi-Fi baby. built-in and everything.
You think you’d still have to pay full price for internet when your screen real estate is so tiny on the ipaq? See if you can’t talk ‘em down to sign in with that.