QArea Test
Wireless Casino Application
QArea, the leading developer
and tester of applications for PDA's and smart phones
also being the originator of the pioneering BugHuntress
Test Suite for automated PDA applications testing,
announces its WirelessCasino gaming application
ready for stress testing on PDA and cell phones.
Moderate statistics says there are approximately
12 mln. online gamblers. 5.3 mln. are Americans.
4 mln. are from Asia. By 2006 the number of Asian
gamblers is anticipated to grow to 7.4 mln. (source:
Christiansen Capital advisors). Last year, online
gamblers comprised about 3.9 percent of the $237
billion global market, according to Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein, a European investment bank. Internet
gambling is experiencing dramatic growth, according
to Christiansen Capital Advisors, which says the
market will reach $6 bln. this year, and as much
as, $10 bln. by 2005.
According to US stockbroker Merrill Lynch, gambling
on the Internet, including casino-style games and
sports betting, is set to generate gross gaming
revenues for online betting companies of $48 bln.
by 2010. While Juniper Research forecasts that mobile
entertainment revenues will top $59 bln. by 2009.
Having experienced this tendency in their own practice,
when participating on several gaming projects, gambling
inclusive, for wireless devices and having proved
to be an expert in this domain QArea decided 'bidding'
for a hardy challenge to create a multiplatform
wireless casino to be operated in handicapped environment
conditions.
The Casino supports 7 most favorite gambling games
- Baccarat, Blackjack, Casino War, Joker Poker,
Let-Them-Ride Poker, Oasis Poker, Red Dog Poker
- one can play taking his time with outstanding
realistic environment effects as sounds, characters,
and visual animation. One can enjoy his thrill when
playing real time for real money which implies powerful
and secure web interface for management, user administration,
billing, statistic and log features.
This impressive set of games was intended to be
cross-platform supported and initially was implemented
for mobile platforms of Symbian (series 60), WinCE,
Palm, Pocket PC, WinCE.NET, Brew, J2ME-enabled phones,
as well as desktop platforms (Windows and Linux).
All the Casino games are implemented invoking a
QArea-own developed SSE engine providing for cross-platform
support. Now QArea assures adding a new platform
will require no more than 30 hours. To provide device
support in regard of various screen resolution,
a screen factor variance for different devices has
also been taken into account. Now one can implement
various styles for the game flawlessly.
Taking into account their personal experience in
the domain of wireless networking conditions QArea
team decided to enhance the product to be operable
on devices that have limited resources. Dependant
on device performance an image rendering algorithm
can be selected as well as screen factor variance
for different devices has also been taken into account.
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