Enormity of the Mobile Gaming sector

Games, mobiles and applications – a creatively synchronized blending of these, gives rise to a smoothly functioning mobile gaming application. The umber cool and most handy devices of the century are mobiles and applications provide them added functionalities, making mobiles more capable functionally.

This merger of the mobile industry with the gaming industry, brought both of them fame and money. The combination of Mobile Gaming was readily accepted by gamers and mobile enthusiasts. The trend gained fast-paced popularity and became so common that even common mobile users started showing their interest in playing pre-loaded games in mobiles which led them to download more games from the web. With games loaded in mobiles and a personal mobile in hand 24/7, it means round the clock entertainment in the pocket. With smart phones on the block, there are more advanced and high-definition games available for the same. Game developers develop games compatible for various types of mobile platforms that sustain in holding the attention of the user for long. One can download a gaming app from over the web, with the help of a USB cable or via the mobile operator.

The first ever mobile game to be integrated in a handset was the pre-installed Snake game in selected Nokia handsets in 1997. With time, its popularity grew to a billion and expanded impeccably worldwide which resulted into many advanced versions of the game in future models of the company’s smart phones.

Old generation mobile phone games were not as expensive to build as today comparatively. The hardware back then was not suitable to high-color screens or sounds beyond differently pitched beeps. Games earlier were generally animated with black squares. ‘Snake’ and ‘Bricks’ were the most commonest mobile games then. The moment camera phone were introduced, mobiles became a lot more common among people. Today’s smart phones have display of higher pixels, strong pixel density, 256K colors or more, Bluetooth, card slot, GPRS enabled and much more. The expandable storage capacity and high-quality graphics became the USP of mobile smart phones, enough to skyrocket the sales even among commoners. This gave chance to game developers to design and develop robust and powerful gaming applications for international mobile gamers which ensured revenue generation to development companies. Currently limited games are pre-installed in mobile phones, however, smart phones are capable of downloading additional gaming applications from the internet.


Mobile application development industry came with immensely creative and unique gaming apps for various popular mobile platforms globally. Advancement in technology gave rise to wider possibilities! Multi-player gaming was made possible with technologies like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPRS, 3G, Wireless LAN, Infrared, etc.

Presently, mobile games like Angry Birds, Snake, Pac-man, and many more are most popular. According to a recent survey, the Gaming industry was worth an approx of $33 billion by 2010 and is expected to grow to a whopping $54 billion by 2015. This is how huge and lucrative the mobile gaming industry is!

The author lists down reasons behind the occasional use of GPS Tracking Apps among mobile users by discussing why users refrain from using mobile tracking apps at large.

Why people are failing in uses of gps tracking applications?

People are using GPS Tracking Applications for tracking of their pets, parents, kids or spouse. In most of the cases people are using these applications very easily but in some cases people are failing in uses of this kind of applications.

Majorly people are failing in uses of gps tracking applications as they are new to technology or new users of smart phones or not aware about application in compare to advanced users. Let’s discuss about major barriers of using gps tracking technology.

1.GPRS Connection - Most common reason behind failure in working of application is gprs connection. As we know installing application is not enough, now a day most of the application needs working gprs connection. Hence using this kind of applications it is prerequisite to have GPS Enabled Smart Phone with Active GPRS Connection.

For avoiding this kind of problem always use GPS Enabled phone with Active GPRS connection so your application works.

2.Installation Problem – Application Installation is another most faced problem by new technology users. For installing any kind of application it has some precondition like to have some software or hardware requirement in smart phones. If user is not aware about it then installation will be fail.

To avoid this kind problem always read installation guide of GPS Tracking Application and install the software or hardware required before installing GPS Tracking Applications.

3.Application Settings - Application setting is the weirdest reason among failure of using gps tracking applications. It’s not believable but true, sometimes what happens if user forgets to change by default settings of application then user can’t get most from app. For instance sometimes application by default setting contains never for data retrieval or gps location data or incoming / outgoing call list or sent / received texts.

It’s better to check it out application setting while starting uses of GPS based tracking applications.

4.Not Aware about Smart Phones – Generally most of the people are aware about their functionality of smart phones. It’s also proven wrong in some cases like users aren’t aware about limitations of their smart phones. For instance application supports Google native maps for location tracking but it doesn’t show in user’s smart phone (in some of model of BlackBerry Google maps doesn’t support) .

To avoid this kind of problem always check default functionality of smart phones.

Hope this article will bring notice about reasons of failure in uses of GPS based tracking applications for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone and other smart phones.

Source: Silver Touch Technologies - Mobile Tracking Apps & Children GPS Tracking

Top 5 factors for selecting GPS Tracking Application

It has been trend now days of using Smart Phones like iPhone, BlackBerry or Android and many more whether school going kid or young professionals. Nobody revoke uses of smart apps such as GPS tracking applications.

In app world there is lots of GPS Tracking Applications avail for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. These GPS applications have own pros and cons. For instance, Pros: You can track your kid or spouse through your smart phone. Cons: You’ll have to keep eye on privacy of your data.

Therefore selecting GPS Tracking Application is most important and avoided topic in app world. So we are going to illustrate most important factors while selecting any GPS tracking application. Features of the application, application availability on cross platform i.e. Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows, Relevance of data provides by application, Privacy of user and Most important thing price of application as it decide to purchase it or not.

1.Features – Features of Application plays vital part in buying any gps tracking application. While Selecting Any GPS Application, Look around the features of application such as whether application provides location data or not, list of incoming / outgoing call, list of sent / received texts.

Another Most Important factor is way of masking application in your spouse’s smart phone or kid’s smart phone. After Checking features of application, compare it with other competitor’s application avail in the market. So you’ll get idea about how powerful GPS tracking application is?

It’s always better to go with application have gps location data, list of incoming / outgoing calls, list of sent / received texts and way of masking application.

2.Cross Platform Tracking - Check Platform independence of Application whether it avails for all platform or not i.e. iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, windows mobile or Java based phones. Don’t forget to check cross platform working ability of application. For instance if you’re using android phone but you’re partner is on iPhone in this case it’s better to check it out whether you’re selected application provides cross platform tracking or not (like wise Android to iPhone tracking, iPhone to BlackBerry Tracking or BlackBerry to Android Tracking and vice versa.)

For avoiding this kind of situation always choose application works on cross platform.

3.Data Relevance – Data is the heart of any GPS tracking application. Look around frequency of data update, notification to user about such set places and relevance of data. Also check whether the application provides data updating as per its setting or user can set the setting as they want i.e. Data updating after every 1 hour or 2 hour, alert for specific place.

Select Children GPS tracking application based on relevance of data, customized setting for data retrieval and notification as per need of user.

4.Privacy - Now day users are more concerned about their privacy, nobody wants interference into their privacy. This same thing applies while using any gps tracking application. Check it after downloading data into application, it keeps on third party server or own server of application provider or not. If apps don’t store the data after downloading which mean you’re data is safe with the respect of privacy of user.

It’s better to use application that doesn’t store data once it downloaded on their server.

5.Price - Most of the GPS Tracking Applications are paid with monthly or yearly pay out. Some application has minimal price whether pricing of some application are too high. It’s difficult to buy application for user if the pricing is dear.

So always consider if you’re spending $$$ on application monthly or yearly in return which features you’re getting. If you don’t want some other advanced feature then don’t spend extra bucks on GPS application.

Always consider these 5 factors before selecting any GPS tracking application for android, blackberry or any other smart phones.