SmartPhone is the new Black
I wrote recently about how with the introduction of the Ipad poker
clients for Iphones/Ipads is something that is inevitable. Weather it’s
a major online poker room (like full tilt, Party or Pokerstars) or a
3rd party who develops the app and put it on there via jailbreak or
whatever still remains to be seen.
It seems i misspoke. I ignored the fact that the Iphone isn’t the only smart-phone out there.
There are many different developers, with different major brands (LG,
Droid, Samsung Blackberry) and most of them each have their own app
store. So, in ignoring that fact and focusing on the Iphones closed off
software store, i missed a whole market. A market Casino-Online.com is
looking to corner, and i actually can’t believe it’s taken this long.
Casino-Online.com is not new in the mobile app business, and has been providing gambling
centric content for the market since the company’s early days.
Currently their main focus is providing content instead of game play,
but that is changing rapidly. Currently in the UK there are a lot of
online casino games already ready for smartphone use (note, “smartphone”
is not iphone..), and in the US Bodog poker is listed as a “mobile
casino” that is ready, but when i followed the link from Casino-Online
it just took me to the Bodog sign up page. It could be because i’m in
Canada though. Here is the Link (it also lists the links from the UK if you’re interested) (also, we are not affiliated wtih Casino-Online.com)
Casino-Online.com’s chief editor Jennifer Lefrack said ” Casino-online.com continues to innovate by not only following the market trends, but actually creating them. Our customers
are tech savvy and because they have 24/7 access on their smartphone, we
need to make sure we provide them instant, easily accessible
information.”
So it seems that while Iphone may be lagging (purposefully?)
in the online casino bid, the major players are making moves to fix
that. I know that if the Android app store is offering Full Tilt poker,
or a viable way to connect to Full Tilt, my next Phone will be an
Android capable phone. Watch out Iphone, or get with the program!
