The specs for Android 2.0 were just released and whaddaya know;

Support for HTML5:

• Database API support, for client-side databases using SQL.
• Application cache support, for offline applications.
• Geolocation API support, to provide location information about the device.
• tag support in fullscreen mode.

Great, no more fiddling with Gears just for Android’s sake. Let’s hope they adhere to the relevant html5--specs the same way Apple does, so you don’t need to do differentiate between iPhone os3 and android 2.0 when creating offline-capable web-apps!

Off course there’s more than just html5 in this new Android version, here’s a short video showing some of the changes in Eclair:

A personal message for HTC to finish this blogpost: feel free to skip Android 1.6 to focus on using 2.0 as the basis for my Hero‘s next rom update :-)