It hasn’t really taken long for online bookmakers to catch on to new technology. One of the latest online betting tools is the mobile phone application – download it to your mobile and place bets just as you would from a computer.

For many mobile phones, it is even easier. For WAP enabled mobile phones, just visit the online bookmakers Mobile WAP site, log in to your account and start to place bets as normal. One of the prime movers in mobile betting is SportingBet Central.

SportingBet has applications for the iPhone and Android along with most other WAP enabled mobile phones. You can visit their web site, enter in your mobile phone number and they will send the application to you. Alternatively, you can dial into their website and download the application from there. If you don’t want to download the application, no sweat, just visit their site (mobile.sportingbet.com) through you phone and access your account from there.

It will be interesting to see how far these applications go. The iPad and similar tablets are going to be hitting the market in the future and these too could make use of the new technology.

Online betting tools have improved immensely in recent years. You no longer have to download flash programs to play casino games, everything can be accessed directly through your browser. Telephone betting was the forerunner of technology but that seems to have died in popularity. It will be interesting to see how many punters take up the opportunity of using a mobile phone to place bets.

Where I see a real boon with these online betting tools is with the ‘in-play’ style bets. You can be at the football or cricket and placing ‘in-play’ bets while watching the game live. That’s even better than Tweeting.