The day is rapidly approaching when you could possibly be sitting in a boring staff meeting or waiting on a train platform for your sweetheart to arrive, and win a number of bucks in real money playing within an online casino on your iPhone or other "smartphone." The mobile gaming business will be pushing hard for the day to get here right away, and it is rapidly becoming reality.

A recent study by Juniper Research estimates that mobile online gambling will be a $48 billion industry by the year 2015, with players enjoying lotteries, parimutuel betting, and the standard casino games like slots and blackjack. The smartphone will be the perfect device for online betting, although within the US, users must use various work-arounds to use them successfully while legislation clarifying the legality of online betting churns its way through Congress.

One possibly enormous player on the globe of mobile web gaming could possibly be state lotteries within the US. Selling lottery tickets over-the-counter isn't easy, and many people are embarrassed to buy them. But buying them online is a far more private transaction that more individuals find appealing. Adding apps for buying lottery tickets to smart phones is prone to draw millions of customers. The technology already exists, and is in wide use within the UK and other countries.

Some internet casinos are choosing to pay attention to smart phone users more than on other online gamblers. Surveys have shown that online bettors use their smart phones in large numbers, and those numbers are only expected to increase over the next number of years. If legal issues within the US are resolved, they are going to likely rise much more dramatically as people go on-line with their mobile phones to play slots, poker, as well as other games. Adapting online gaming for smart phones involves fitting the entire site onto the screen so that players can see the whole page at one time while they're playing.

Internet gambling is, as expected, the best on the top selling smart phones, such as the iPhone, the iPad, and the iPhone Touch. Nokia has recently come out with four new models which make it easy for players to visit web casinos or place online sports wagers. These devices run on the Symbian operating system, which has a reputation for fast connections, making them potentially more appealing to online gamblers.

The worlds of smart smartphones and web-based casinos are merging as more individuals choose to access the web with their smart phones once they do not have their computer or netbook handy (or don't have a WiFi signal). Web casinos are reaching out to these devices in hopes of making the experience as entertaining as possible for these users.