Google has announced the availablility of Google Gears for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 Pocket PC devices. This add-on enables you to access your mobile web applications even while offline when you lose your GPRS/3G internet connection, lose your carrier’s cellular signal or are in “flight mode” when data services are restricted.

The first version of Google Gear for Mobile is available for Pocket Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 Pocket PC devices. It’s a fully functional port of Google Gears v0.2 that can be used to develop offline capability into mobile web applications. You can hide network latency issues through controlled caching of data and storage of information between sessions.

Already, there are two major Windows Mobile web applications that use Google Gears for Mobile, such as the social payment service Buxfer and online Office suite provider Zoho which can be accessed from your Pocket PC browser by going to m.buxfer.com or mobile.zoho.com respectively.

When you first access mobile Buxfer or Zoho Writer on your Windows Mobile device and go offline, you will be asked to install Google Gears for mobile. Once installed, Gears runs in the background allowing access to your ZoHo documents even when you lose your network connection or check your bank or credit card balance using Buxfer while offline.

Google is also in the process of porting Google Gears Mobile for other mobile platforms such as Symbian, Android and possibly Java.