Google Gears for Mobile Apps Launches
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | March 4, 2008 | Share This
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Google has just released Google Gears for mobile, which allows users to access online data when offline. From the Google Mobile blog:
Ever use a mobile web application and suddenly lose your cell connection? That’s happened to me many times. If you’ve shared my pain, you’ll be excited to know that we’ve launched Google Gears for mobile, which lets users access Gears-enabled mobile web apps offline. Initially available for Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices, mobile web app developers have already started integrating Gears for mobile into their online services.
This functionality will also be built into Android. Here’s a video of Google engineers talking about how Gears for mobile works.
Topics: Google, Wireless & Mobile |