My Experiment with Mobile Web

So after I wrote last week asking who really browses on their phone anyways I decided to pony up the dough and see what all the fuss is about.  Many people said they read News Items and/or RSS feeds.  OK!  I'll try setting that up on my phone.  I have a Samsung A850 through Verizon (Yes I can hear you now!).  I went in and purchased the internet plan.  $5.95/month.  OK I try it. It's loading......

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After like two minutes it finally comes up to a menu screen of other menu's...this is obviously a failure in UI on Verizons part as thier AOL styled portal is just terrible. If I want to navigate to a separate URL I have to go to search then there is a sub menu for go to url.

I decided after like 5 minutes of waiting for a crappy page to load that this wasn't for me.  I was planning on going into verizon and cancelling the service.  Then I stumbled apon Googles Personalize Page for mobile phones.  I tried this out.  And I'll say this is what I would want as my home page. RSS Feeds, News Feeds whatever you can put in the online version of Google Personalization. 

Now all I need to do is find a quick way to access it from my phone.  This might make it so that I like checking my phone for RSS feeds.  But it's still slow as hell and totally unusable.  I'll keep you posted on my progress.