The day is rapidly approaching when you could possibly be sitting in a boring staff meeting or waiting on a train platform for your sweetheart to arrive, and win several bucks in real money playing within an online casino on your iPhone or any other “smartphone.” The mobile gaming sector is pushing hard for the day to get here as soon as possible, which is rapidly becoming reality.

A recent study by Juniper Research estimates that mobile online gambling will be a $48 billion industry through the year 2015, with players enjoying lotteries, parimutuel betting, and the standard casino games like slots and blackjack. The mobile phone will be the perfect device for online betting, however in the US, users must use various work-arounds to use them successfully while legislation clarifying the legality of online betting churns its way through Congress.

One possibly enormous player in the world of mobile web gaming could possibly be state lotteries in the US. Selling lottery tickets over the counter is just not easy, and lots of people are embarrassed to buy them. But buying them online is a far more private transaction that more folks find appealing. Adding apps for one-time offer buying lottery tickets to smart phones is likely to draw millions of customers. The technology already exists, and is in wide use in the UK as well as other countries.

Some internet casinos are choosing to pay attention to smart phone users more than on other online gamblers. Surveys have shown that online bettors use their smartphones in large numbers, and those numbers will be just expected to increase over the next few years. If legal issues in the US are resolved, they are going to likely rise much more dramatically as people go online with their phones to play slots, poker, and other games. Adapting online gaming for mobile phones involves fitting the entire site onto the screen in order that players can see the entire page at one time while they can be playing.

Internet gambling is, as expected, the most popular on the very best selling mobile phones, such as the iPhone, the iPad, as well as the iPhone Touch. Nokia has recently come out with four new models that make it easy for players to visit web casinos or place online sports wagers. These devices run on the Symbian operating-system, which has a reputation for fast connections, making them potentially more appealing to online gamblers.

The worlds of smart mobile devices and web-based casinos are merging as more individuals decide to access the web with their mobile phones once they do not have their computer or netbook handy (or do not have a WiFi signal). Web casinos are reaching out to these devices in hopes of making the experience as entertaining as it can be of these users.