I tested this both in the emulator and on real devices.
I created this small site of a geolocation experiment http://www.bctx.info/wx. It works fine on my Android 1.6 (Magic, I / O Phone): it asks the user to share, returns latitude and longitude, and it's fast. Android 1.6 uses Gears for this.
I tried this on the updated Droid and the emulator 2.0 image, and it detects an element navigator.geolocation(excellent!) And waits for the user.
However, a pop-up window does not appear on the device, and it cannot continue. Any thoughts?
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