Trends In Mobile Bingo

Online bingo has been undergoing the transition to being a 'social' and a 'mobile' game at the same time as online casino games make those same transitions. As opposed to skill games like Poker or games focused on betting, namely Baccarat and Roulette, Bingo is a simple affair. That may be why it seems to absorb the latest Web influences (like social gaming) faster than the relatively complicated card games.

Let's take a look at the newest trends in online bingo, bearing in mind players who want to understand these developments in order to play smarter and even to reap better bonuses.

The following could be seen as the main trends affecting online bingo today. They are the things we're about to take a look at, while exploring this prospect: the community of online Bingo seems to invite more innovation than the casino set.

We're looking out for huge changes in online Bingo from 2013, coming on the heels of:

• Social gaming
• Mobile access to games
• HTML5 (end of apps and Flash)
• Real-cash versions
• More chat, video and live dealers

Online bingo (also mobile) has had the social feature of in-game chats for some time already. Perhaps that came about because bingo is first and foremost a very sociable and gregarious game. But today's networked bingo games also offer user profiles and friending capabilities, plus generous offers through official social network pages.

Just become aware of your favourite bingo operator's online presences, including Facebook, Twitter and of course their own blogs. Wouldn't you like advance notice on special deposit bonuses or limited tournament team seats?

Often, the best way to get the fastest scoops on great offers is through your friend networks, actually. So go ahead and avail yourself of social media whenever you see it offered with live mobile bingo.

The most basic progression of all for online bingo is, of course, mobile access from either older 2G phones like Nokia's many models (non-touchscreen) or newer smart phones with large colour touch-screen displays. These smart phones are being hailed along with tablets as the new ultimate gaming devices; they can surely make online bingo pop off the screen.

Native apps that we can download for free are still the norm. However, there are global Web upgrades afoot will make mobile gaming faster within the coming year. Apps will be joined by other ways to play from mobile platforms, with better integration of social features and less hassles with troubleshooting misbehaving apps.

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These upgrades are part of the HTML5 WWW specification now becoming standardized. HTML5 makes webpages load faster for mobile users, and, most importantly it makes multimedia content a native capacity of basic webpages -- in other words, Flash and other plugins are now obsolete because video, chat and even interactive drawing can happen right inside a webpage itself, without any outside help. This is what the Web was always supposed to be; it is making all online games the best they can be.

Best of all, playing directly at the bingo operator's live site instead of through the intermediary of an app means you always play the very latest game, and, you have direct connections to your online bingo buddies. Without the app, too, your phone or tablet stays lighter and has more room for your music or what have you.

Let's not forget the simple fact that 2013 may see the most dramatic increase in conversions of popular bingo apps and online games to real-cash versions. This is due to the fact that online gambling (far exceeding bingo's small wagers on cards) is gaining acceptance and becoming a regulated form of entertainment in many parts of the world, including the US. As it turns out, economic down-turns are good for gambling, since governments tax the operators in order to mend their torn budgets.

On the heels of HTML5 improvements, we'll all get more chatting, seamless video and even live bingo spinners in our everyday experience of the online and mobile bingo. In a word, online bingo and all Internet-based games will become truly futuristic, somewhat like the devices we've been seeing in the hands' of heroes and heroines in sci-fi movies for years.

It's exciting to see a relatively 'simple' or down-home sort of game like bingo acquiring all the newest high-tech powers and polish as other forms of online gaming. Bingo, after all, was the first real-cash game allowed on Facebook to UK users. This old-school game turns out to be part of the gaming vanguard!

Author Bio: Michal Dorner has studied media technology and Philosophy of technology at the postgraduate level, and he has taught Media Studies.