iPhone gets iGoogle

An optimized version of iGoogle is now available for iPhone users. iGoogle, which can be customized to display RSS feeds, news on a variety of topics, crossword puzzles, weather maps, online tetris, etc. The iPhone optimized version lists all feeds and gadgets in one column (and if the TestiPhone.com site is to be believed, content is scaled to the screen) and you can select individual tabs at the bottom of the page (very similar to the traditional iGoogle set-up). The iGoogle iPhone address is http://www.google.com/ig/i and it is a significant improvment over the US-only Google Mobile page.

iGoogle on the iPhone (simulated)

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Source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/igoogle-for-iphone.…

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Gadget Badger

I'm an iGoogle gadget developer, and really welcome this. It seems to work well because of the standardised format of gadgets, and that there's a vast library of gadgets.
I wonder if my Spectrum iGoogle Gadget (http://www.gadgetbadger.com/zx-spectrum/
) will work on it :) Anyone out there can try it for me?... check out my blog for this and other iGoogle Gadgets for iPhone.
http://www.gadgetbadger.com/

January 16 2008 at 9:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Luigi Semenzato

I have to agree with the negative comments from most other posters: ig/i is worse than ig on the iPhone. Even if it weren't, it's very presumptuous of Google to assume they know better and not leave their users a choice.

Quite surprising as I don't remember Google ever screwing up before.

January 14 2008 at 8:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mehdi

best web app i've ever used...
you can read all your daily news there, really easily. in usual one, you can't read topics easily, and to read the details you need to zoom too much to click the plus button.

plus, you can use all google web gadgets inside it :)
i really really love it

January 14 2008 at 5:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sys_ops911

http://www.google.co.nz/ig bypasses the new iphone page.

January 14 2008 at 4:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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VM_KING

Thank You for the website. I do feel that with the new format I went back a couple years. They should give us a choice. I love zooming in and out of headlines I want to read. That one of iphones biggest draws for me, web page format. I love google, but shame on them!

January 16 2008 at 8:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

igottamini

Do not want.

This sucks. I really enjoyed using the desktop version of igoogle on my iphone. I could scroll around and double tap my way to ecstacy. This new iphone specific version fails horribly. (for my preferences at least.)

Is there a way to force igoogle to load the desktop version as default?

January 12 2008 at 1:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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sys_ops911

yah bookmark it.

January 12 2008 at 6:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

FunFred

No, bookmarking it doesn't work.

Honestly, I played around with it for a few minutes, and there doesn't seem to be a way. At least not that I can find.

However, there is a little thing that may help ease the pain that you may or may not have noticed.

If you tap the title of one of the sections, it expands/contracts. So if you have some sections that you read more than others, you can keep them expanded/hidden in ways that make it easy to skim through.

January 13 2008 at 4:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zaph

You can enter "igoogle" and touch "Go instead of "www.google.com/ig/i". iPhone auto adds the .com, google redirects to "google/ig/i" and the leading "www" is not necessary for most web sites automatically.

January 12 2008 at 8:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matthew Waters

Is it me, or are "iPhone optimised" pages the exact REVERSAL of what Apple were trying to do for the iPhone by including such a capable version of Safari?

They were trying to get the regular web in all of its glory (or not) onto a mobile device without site designers having to create custom pages for them like they did back in the WAP days.

Matt

January 12 2008 at 7:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

coletek

ig/i:
performance is better, format is worse. give me the old format with this performance. it's very boring & too much scrolling.

January 12 2008 at 7:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nick

Hmm, a Google vids feed on iGoogle... Perhaps Flash support is only a keynote away.

January 12 2008 at 5:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Max

Still much prefer my Netvibes mobile. Even the facebook widget still works, plus other things like my twitter widget, email widgets, weather, etc.

January 11 2008 at 11:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply