Kimmo Kinnunen of Nokia did a preliminary port of Google Gears to Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Tablet platform, Maemo. This port allows you to install the Gears extension to devices like Nokia’s N800 and N810.

The code is in a SVN repository with vendor branches. The changes should be relatively easy to spot (svn diff). The changes are not well- engineered, rather they just indicate the difference between gecko 1.8 and 1.9. This is to keep the delta as small as possible. In practice, if these modifications are wanted in the main codebase, the changes should be done a bit differently (==build abstractions around thread queues).

For further info, see: Issue 292: Support for Maemo platform

We have seen a lot of interest from the mobile community on getting Gears enabled on phone platforms. It is an obvious win on a system with the latency constraints that we have. I hope to see Gears preinstalled on devices in the near future.