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Google Gears for Mobile Gives Offline Access to Windows Mobile Users
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 1:00 AM on March 5, 2008
Google's offline-enabling project Gears released a version for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices last night, and mobile web apps like online document editor Zoho Writer and money manager Buxfer have already thrown their hats into the not-always-mobile ring. It looks like documents are read-only in Zoho at this point, but, like its desktop brother, Zoho Writer Mobile will likely upgrade to full online/offline sync soon. Similarly, Buxfer lets you check account balances and see transactions, but not make any account changes. It's a nice start, however, and more mobile apps, and functionality, are likely to follow. Visit gears.google.com from your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device to install Gears.
Tags: google gears | mobile webapps | offline | top | video | video demonstration | windows mobile | zoho
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Thibault
Posted 2:02 AM 5/3/08
DO you know if you can choose to store google gears nformation, ie your zoho documents in a storage cards ?
you may forward this quesiton to zoho people
Thibault
Pat
Posted 4:07 AM 5/3/08
How about Palm OS? Imagine... google reader offline with palm os!
Pat
onemoreday
Posted 4:34 AM 5/3/08
Why is Google so slow at adding Gears support when Zoho is so fast?
onemoreday
JiveMasterT
Posted 4:34 AM 5/3/08
This would rock so hard for blackberries.
JiveMasterT
rajuv
Posted 4:59 AM 5/3/08
@Gina, Thanks for the article. Zoho Writer offline version is also available in Edit mode for the desktop.
@Thibault, currently you cannot store these documents on storage cards as the docs are stored in a mini-database.
rajuv
Wired Dude Dave
Posted 11:13 AM 5/3/08
i can't even get m.zoho.com to work on my windows mobile 5 device. I see a blank screen with the zoho logo and a logout button, but none of my docs.
Wired Dude Dave
Sam_Zebian
Posted 11:14 AM 5/3/08
I just downloaded and installed the google gears for winmo, but does anyone know if it works with google reader or Gmail, because when I tried either, I didn't see any options for google gears or downloading...
Sam_Zebian
arvindnatarajan
Posted 5:52 PM 6/3/08
Dave : Zoho Writer currently supports only Windows Mobile 6.0
arvindnatarajan