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I have Ladbrokes and Aces Royal installed. Works well but connectivity is the main issue…on wi-fi fine, but more often than not when I have time to play I’m on a train or some place and you hit a tunnel and *boom*.
The registration/logging in is a bit fiddly on phones aswell I find. It’s not as simple as on a PC but it works. There’s a fair way to go before it gets widely adopted and while I thought I’d play a fair bit, turns out I haven’t as per above.
To become popular I think access needs to be quicker and connectivity better. On a PC you are up and playing in 60 seconds. On a phone it feels longer, connectivity isn’t as sturdy and your time is more limited so I find myself thinking “I’ll wait til i get home” more often than not.
Thanks Simmo for your feedback from a players prospective. When you talk about the registration process being fiddly is that because you have to use the keypad to type?
Have you tried to make a WAP site? If not, what has stopped you?
i registered casinos-online.mobi but havent gotten to it, havent even looked at wap
@Jamie 133645 wrote:
Thanks Simmo for your feedback from a players prospective. When you talk about the registration process being fiddly is that because you have to use the keypad to type?
Have you tried to make a WAP site? If not, what has stopped you?
Yeah pretty much although its not that bad to be honest. Its more the “general” speed of starting up, logging in, funding your account…maybe I’m being picky but unless I know I have a spare hour it doesn’t feel like its worth the agro for a connection that may or may not hold. And when I have an hour it’s normally when I am at home anyway, or travelling.
I could see myself using it in a hotel on wifi if I was travelling alone, but you normally have to pay some exorbitant charge that puts you off bothering.
When/if airplanes get wifi that would work, but I think they are hooking up their own gambling systems for that anyway so not sure if they’d be preventative. And trains go through tunnels and blackspots (over here at least) unfortunately.
There’s another thing that puts me off too: telecom operators don’t tend to be very transparent on data charges, and not only that, but when you are playing you have no idea how much data you are transferring. So at £x a meg, you don’t know what you are racking up. I’d like to see the games software keep you up to date on data usage as you play.
The games are very good though – the Spin3 and Aces Royal poker system in particular impressed me. But they are ahead of mobile technology IMO.
I think it has a bright future, but future is the key word right now.
Actually one more point: I think mobile connectivity technology is outside the technical know-how of many casual gamblers. It was a nightmare getting GPRS set up on my Nokia N80 on PAYG using O2. Better on the Samsung SGH-U600, but it needs to be seemless.
@Simmo! 133658 wrote:
There’s another thing that puts me off too: telecom operators don’t tend to be very transparent on data charges, and not only that, but when you are playing you have no idea how much data you are transferring. So at £x a meg, you don’t know what you are racking up. I’d like to see the games software keep you up to date on data usage as you play.
That is a great point, have you asked any mobile casino merchants if this is easy to do?
