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What about geolocation or using the phone's built-in camera, is/will this at all be possible from HTML5 apps?

Those features are a huge incentive to create mobile apps, imo.

There is a geolocation API that falls under the extended "HTML5" family of technologies. It's implemented in MobileSafari, don't know about Android or WinMo.

I can recommend geo.js http://code.google.com/p/geo-location-javascript/

It supports several devices like:

iPhone OS 3.x, Browsers with Google Gears support (Android, Windows Mobile), Blackberry Devices (8820, 9000,...), Nokia Web Run-Time (Nokia N97,...), webOS Application Platform (Palm Pre), Torch Mobile Iris Browser, Mozilla Geode,

It is possible with Android too, even the Camera works on Froyo.

At the Google I/O 2010 keynote, day 2, they said that camera and magnetometer support in the browser will be integrated in the next release (gingerbread?). What they show was "a sneak peak of what coming next, after froyo".

Really? I'd heard that wasn't planned until the next release of Android.

geolocation is possible with html5, built-in camera is possible on Android but not for streaming. This is coming though to html5 with the device API.

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