Congratulations to Marko and the team for snagging such an impressive partner in Google and getting the Lab’s first big mobile project as one of their two launch apps!

Here’s the Google video announcing the new API:

Alas, the details about Opera’s Gears support are a little on the slim side – the release is pegged as sometime later this year and there’s no technical details available right now – but it’s good to see Gears expanding beyond its previous heartland of Windows Mobile devices.

By joining up with Opera, Gears gets to dodge the operating system question entirely and open itself up to Symbian phones and the massive user base that goes with it. A release date wouldn’t go amiss – I’d be keen to find out how Gears copes with some of the lower end devices.