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What is mobile betting?

Mobile betting is a little hard to define these days. Essentially, mobile betting is placing bets from a device on a wireless network - usually via mobile phone using 3G or other mobile web connection. However, while you might consider betting from a laptop or PC connected to a 3G network to be mobile betting, that isn't normally what bookies intend when they talk about mobile betting.

Many online betting sites have caught on to the smartphone craze and have begun to offer betting applications for mobile phones. These allow you to securely access your account whenever you have a wireless connection and tend to use interfaces that are best suited to use on a mobile phone.

Which sites are best for mobile betting?

Our favourite sportsbook sites for online betting include:

• Bet365
• Betfair
• William Hill
• Ladbrokes

Many of these online bookies include smartphone apps for mobile betting purposes.

What are the advantages of mobile betting?

Mobile betting has two main advantages - convenience and speed.

Convenience comes in the form of being able to place bets wherever you are, at any time of day. Mobile betting can be even more convenient than regular online gambling, as you only need a phone with you rather than a laptop or a PC.

Speed is not so much to do with how fast you can place a bet, which will mostly depend on your wireless connection, but more in terms of reacting to markets. Mobile betting gives you access to the latest odds even when you are out and about. Normally you would have to wait until you return to your desk to check any movement in the betting markets. Mobile betting can inform you of any movements as they happen and give you an opportunity to place new bets.

What are the disadvantages of mobile betting?

Mobile betting has the same disadvantages as many other things that have gone mobile. Small screens can be frustrating to navigate for long periods of time, and many mobiles are designed to only really allow you to focus on one thing at a time. This makes mobile betting a bad choice when you are only looking for lines to bet on. However, if you already know what you are betting on and just want to wait for the perfect moment to bet, then mobile betting is an excellent tool for the advanced punter.

Which site do you recommend most for mobile betting?

As we believe that mobile betting is best done by experts, we think Betfair is generally the best site for mobile betting. Watching market movements on Betfair can be very important and so it makes the best use of mobile betting.

With that said, Bet365 would be our choice for casual punters who want to get in on mobile betting for the sheer convenience. The Bet365 mobile application has good design sense, even though we still wish online bookies would get away from the green-heavy colour schemes they seem to love so well.