Mobile casino gaming is fast becoming the new frontier for virtual wagering, and so it’s little surprise that the big names in the UK online casino business have been quick to seize the opportunity to extend their services into their punters’ pockets. Familiar names William Hill and Coral Casino have established mobile casinos as part of their gaming products and now archrival Ladbrokes have joined the fray too. Unless you’ve just recently arrived on Earth from another civilization beyond the Solar System, Ladbrokes as a company that needs little introduction – the essential fact for earth-bound gamers and extra-terrestrials alike is that Ladbrokes is an excellent company with an impeccable reputation for honest and secure gambling entertainment.
So how easy is it to ‘go mobile’ with Ladbrokes, and has it succeeded in shoehorning a casino into a typical cellphone? Well, first stop for intrepid wireless wagerers is the Ladbrokes Casino website where, unlike some of its main rivals, it has a pretty clear link to take visitors to the mobile casino section. Ladbrokes have done a very thorough job of guiding newcomers through the necessary steps needed to play its mobile games and we’d highly recommend clicking to its ‘Mobile Help & FAQs page’ to run through the step-by-step download guide and comprehensive FAQ. Ladbrokes have also implemented a nice menu driven application to check phone compatibility to let you quickly check if your mobile’s up to the job of handling the Java-powered games. Being the annoying pedants that we are, we did notice that a ‘is my phone compatible?’ link in the FAQ didn’t actually load the promised compatibility page - we accept this is not a deal breaking issue, but it is a tad sloppy in our opinion. While we are lingering over Ladbrokes’ website introduction to its mobile casino, we should also mention that it would have seen good to see some animated previews of the games themselves to tease us into trying its wares. We found such previews on Ladbrokes’ software supplier’s site and they are a great advert for going ahead with downloading the games to try for yourself!
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Moving onto the nitty gritty of playing Ladbrokes Mobile Casino, you will need to open an account with Ladbrokes before downloading its games, but this is not a particularly arduous process and does create an account that gives you access across the whole range of Ladbrokes services. Once inside Ladbrokes’ cyber compound you’re free to download the nine mobile games it currently offers. Whilst nine doesn’t sound like much - especially in comparison to the two hundred options available at Ladbrokes online casino - it’s pretty good in comparison to rival mobile casino offerings. And the overall quality? Really rather good in our opinion. The games have come from Spin3, an extension of Microgaming which powers Ladbrokes’ online casino software, and this provenance shows in the excellent rendering of the games in the more limited computing platform of a mobile phone. Tested on a Motorola Razr V3i we found classic table games like Blackjack and Roulette very acceptable in presentation and play, and the more mobile-friendly formats of machine games, like Video Poker and Slots, excellent emulations of the real thing. Ladbrokes have also upped the appeal for Slot jockeys by including a three-reel and five-reel progressive jackpot game amongst its complement of machines. With quality like this we look forward to seeing what other casino classics Ladbrokes and Spin3 can squeeze into a mobile in the future!
With regards to ongoing customer support, the mobile casino is handled to Ladbrokes usual high standards via its established phone and e-mail channels. We must confess that Ladbrokes’ FAQ was so comprehensive, meticulously dealing with technical issues such as content blocking for all major UK networks, that we really had to scrabble for an excuse to call them, but when we did our enquiry was handled politely and efficiently.
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Realistically, mobile casinos can only give a limited thrill compared to the full glory of the casino games they seek to recreate, but considering the current state-of-the-art we think Ladbrokes has got one of the best offerings out there. If you’re minded to try some Blackjack on the bus to work, or Roulette on the ride home then a visit to Ladbrokes is well worth the effort: And did we mention you can trial the games in a demo mode too? There, we just did, so there’s one final reason to take a look at Ladbrokes whether you’re already ‘game on’ or simply just curious to sample some mobile casino carousing!
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