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4

2008

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Google Gears goes mobile

03:37PM by Wayne Lam

Mobile web browsing is great [or so Apple would like you to believe]… that is, of course, if you can keep your wireless connection consistently connected.  In the real world, wireless data connections regularly drop while you roam about making mobile browsing a frustrating proposition.  So, what’s the fix? Enter Google Gears.

Google Gears is essentially an offline web applications platform.  It allows users to continue using specifically developed web applications even when the internet connection is dropped.  Today Google announced that Google Gears has gone mobile.  Initially developed for the Windows Mobile 5 and 6 platform, Google plans to roll out to other major platforms soon. For more details, check out the Google Mobile Blog.