Today it is very common to play games on mobile phones and these games are like video games but at the same time they are very different from games which you would normally play on a PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS or Nintendo wii. Games on mobile phones are generally played by utilizing technologies which are present in the device itself. For games which are networked the different technologies used commonly are SMS, MMS or multimedia message and also the location identification of GPRS.

On the other hand, the applications which are non-networked usually run software of the games by utilizing the platform of the device. The games on mobile phones are capable of being installed or loaded over air or a cable can be used to side load games onto the mobile phone handset. Also, the games on mobile phones are embedded on devices which are handheld, via EOM or through a mobile operator.

The technology by which games are generally downloaded is by means of the radio network of mobile operators. However, at times the games are installed in the phones handset when you buy them or via the infrared connection, memory card as well as Bluetooth.

The development of mobile phone games is done by use of platforms as well as technologies like Adobe’s Flash Lite, Google Android platforms, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, DoCoMo’s DoJa, Qualcomm’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless or BREW, Palm OS, WIPI, iPhone OS and Sun’s Java ME. Other platforms for mobile phone games are available too but they aren’t as common as these technologies. One of the most widespread platforms for games on mobile phones happens to be Java; but due to the limitations of its performance the different binary formats are being adopted for mobile phone games which are more sophisticated.

Most of the mobile games involve single players with one or more opponents that are artificially intelligent. But there are the multiplayer mobile games and they are functional by means of the GPRS, Infrared, WiFi, Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, 3G and so on. All these technologies have contributed towards the popularity of mobile phone games over the years. So much so, that the mobile games are emerging as a billion dollar industry and this is growing constantly. And at the same time new technologies too are being developed to modify and reinvent the mobile phone games and add new features to them.