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Now this is where Google Gears starts making real sense. Sure, it's handy to be able to launch your web application when you don't have internet connectivity, but how often that happens? However, your mobile is probably offline most of the time (well, mine isn't, but I'm not what you'd call a regular user). Now, Google Gears work on mobile devices - not Android devices, mind you, but Windows Mobile 5 or 6 devices - enabling you to fire up your favorite web app even when you're offline.
The partners for the launch are Zoho and Buxfer. Zoho Writer, which now works with Windows Mobile 6.0 devices, offers offline viewing of documents, while editing will come at a later stage. Buxfer, whose mobile version is available at m.buxfer.com, now enables you to access your bank account balances, transactions, and analysis charts in read only mode without internet access.
In the video below, Andrei Popescu and Dave Burke describe talk about working on the Google Gears mobile project.