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\"angry_birds_family_by_fizzle_knight-d61ffh9\"<\/a>Mobile phones have effectively revolutionised the way we live our lives, and continue to grow in technical capabilities to further extend the range of facilities and functions available to its users. One in five people across the world own a smartphone device, illustrating its vast popularity and\u00a0a growing dependence on technology<\/a> to improve our quality of life. Mobile phones were primarily invented to provide the basic function of making and receiving calls whilst on the go, which extended communication between friends, family members, loved ones and work colleagues away from landline telephones located in the home or office.<\/p>\n

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Considerable advancements in technology has not only led to dynamic changes in the overall size, weight and appearance of phones, but also created smartphones and Android devices which open up an almost limitless world for users to search the internet, organise their daily schedule and play games whilst on the go. The latter has become one of the highest grossing mobile phone markets, as games designers continues to produce top-selling apps that combine simplistic touchscreen controls with an engrossing gameplay experience across all genres.<\/p>\n

Bet365<\/h3>\n

Downloading the Bet365 app onto your smartphone or Android device allows you to enter a world of gambling that provides a high quality gaming experience. While Bet365 are renowned across the world for their comprehensive sports betting market, they also provide a bingo and casino service for gamblers to enjoy their favourite games on. A glowing review on\u00a0gamblingafrica.com<\/a> promotes the Bet365 app as a must have for punters who wish to enjoy a selection of slot, table and card games whenever they desire.<\/p>\n

Angry Birds<\/h3>\n

A transformation from a basic game concept to a global phenomenon as a franchise which is the highest downloaded free-to-play game of all time symbolises the huge popularity of Angry Birds. Created by Rovio Entertainment, the game is based upon a slingshot from which gamers fire birds at pigs placed across various structures of increasing difficulty level, with the aim to destroy all the pigs on the playing field in order to progress. It was primarily developed and released for touchscreen smartphones, but such is the ever-increasing worldwide popularity, the game is now available to play across console and PC platforms; Angry Birds also thrives upon merchandise sales, with long-term plans for a television series and feature films firmly in the pipeline. With over 2 billion downloads across all platforms, Angry Birds, whether it is the original version or any of the numerous spin-offs, is a must-have download for any phone.<\/p>\n

Limbo<\/h3>\n

Unlike many other modern day platform games, Limbo takes an interesting twist on a popular genre through stylish monochrome graphics and 2D gameplay that beautifully combine to create a hugely popular game. Limbo was originally designed by Playdead for the Xbox 360 console, but was later expanded across the PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows and iOS platforms, with the latter allow smartphone users to download and play a popular game whilst on the go. The game is based upon an un-named boy who searches through a dark forest to look for his missing sister, with various puzzles and enemies facing the player as they travel through \u2018the edge of hell\u2019. Its simplistic gameplay is matched by challenging puzzles that require gamers to concentrate and find a solution to keep the boy alive and avoid the many pitfalls that stand in his way.<\/p>\n

Candy Crush Saga<\/h3>\n

With an average of 46 million users every month, Candy Crush Saga is undoubtedly amongst the most popular gaming apps of all time. The puzzle-based games requires gamers to matching coloured sweets to create horizontal and vertical lines consisting of three, or more, of the same pieces, with the difficulty rating increasing over hundreds of levels which require a certain objective, such as total score and number of given moves, in order to progress. Candy Crush Saga is available to play across all smartphone and Android devices, in addition to the social networking site Facebook which continues to enhance its\u00a0global appeal and addiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Football Manager Handheld 2013<\/h3>\n

The hugely popular games series place gamers in the hotseat of a football club who they must lead to potential glory, or steer clear of relegation within a game that provides all the emotion and stress of being a football manager. Football Manager has established itself as a top-selling PC game, but its integration onto the mobile phone platform allows avid football fans to enjoy being a manager whilst on the go. Considerable thought has been put into making the mobile conversion a success, with the app providing a wealth of options and information that do not over-complicate the game and offer a wonderful gaming experience for football fans who wish to take their favourite team to the top.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mobile phones have effectively revolutionised the way we live our lives, and continue to grow in technical capabilities to further extend the range of facilities and functions available to its users. One in five people across the world own a smartphone device, illustrating its vast popularity and\u00a0a growing dependence on technology to improve our quality … Continue reading “The must-have game apps for your phone”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,86],"tags":[4938,8871,8869,8870],"class_list":["post-13824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-android","tag-angry-birds","tag-games","tag-mobile-phones"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/angry_birds_family_by_fizzle_knight-d61ffh9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13857,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824\/revisions\/13857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}