Google Gears on Dash
Yesterday Google announced Google Gears for mobile devices. It only supports Windows Mobile devices for now. Zoho is one of the demo sites available, so I tried it on T-Mobile Dash. As you can see from the screenshots, the capability is still limited: you can only view (no editting) up to 5 documents, (less than 25KB each). But the potential is there. I would wish the recently launched LinkedIn mobile supports offline mode, so I can cache all my connections locally with me all the time.
Local mobile applications will never rest in peace. But as the mobile browser evolves and 3G connection becomes more pervasive, mobile browser will be sufficient for more and more applications. Google Gears mobile is just the first step -bringing local storage capability to it.
Installation succeeded:
Zoho offline mode:
Zoho offline document viewing (sample document):
