Mobile Phone betting
Even though the betting hasn’t been going well, I did have the pleasure (sic) of putting on the Liverpool bet on Blue Square mobile. I have Samsung i8510 with full html web browsing. I managed to get oddschecker on there and found bluesquare had the best odds of 1.36 for Liverpool to beat West Ham.
I don’t think the technology is there for mobile betting yet. The bluequare site is OK but navigation is cumbersome on the keypad. I didn’t have £100 in the account so rather than saying, “deposit £100 and place bet”, the website just says, “no”. So I have to mess around depositing and navigating to the bet again. To be fair their full html site does the same. I can cope with navigation on a PC though.
They should publish the phone number on the page where you can phone their telephone betting operation for free. Its 020 76886210. Better still, why not have a text number where you can send a text and they’ll call you back? I remember years ago c2002, I had forgotten my password on Bet365, sent them a message on their website and they called me back about 5 minutes later. That was like 6 years ago.
So in summary, mobile betting is rubbish. You just need to make sure you have the landline numbers for bookmakers – just call them up, its quicker.
02076886210 Bluesquare
01782684757 Bet365
02088348060 Betfair.
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:49 am
Can’t see that happening. Serious gamblers will be on their top end PCs with multiple monitors. Speed gives you an advantage. Given someone on a PC vs someone on an iphone I guarantee “ceteris paribus”, your person on the PC will win more. Your casual gambler will just call up. I think the best you can hope for is for someone to use the mobile app to close all their betting positions if the main PC gets disconnect.