Pay on your mobile,Play on your mobile
Pay on your mobile,Play on your mobile
Nektan is an online gaming development company, based in London. It was founded as recently as 2008, and is now registered as having its headquarters in Gibraltar. It is listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), having been admitted in 2014. As a Business to Business (B2B) focused company, it is focused on developing gaming software and website infrastructure for its clients, who licence its designs for their own sites. It also operates a number of its own casino sites.
It offers its licenced business partners a full off the shelf service, providing a unique design plus all the necessary back office functions. Payment facilities, marketing, IT and customer support can all be provided, according to its business partners’ requirements.
But from the mobile player’s point of view, Nektan really is the biggest name in the business. The company was perhaps the first to spot the growing enthusiasm for playing on the go. Play on mobile devices such as phones and tablets is expected to overtake land based desktop and laptop play very soon, and this amazing growth is a relatively recent phenomenon. The swiftness of its growth is demonstrated by the fact that it is clearly the leader in mobile gaming in the United Kingdom, and yet its first mobile specific site was not even launched until 2014! In less than two years, Nektan has been able to carve out a niche as the go-to experts for mobile friendly site design. Its sites are developed specifically with the more compact device in mind, rather than those of many of its competitors, who merely customise sites originally created for the larger screen.
And you can certainly tell the difference. Nektan designed sites have a professional look and smoothness that regular on the go players really appreciate. Its superb slot and casino games fit the smaller screen superbly, so you can play without needing to squint for miniscule details and unreadable text. Nor is there any need for unnecessary scrolling – everything is made to measure. No additional downloads or apps are required either. Whatever your chosen device’s operating system, just open your standard pre-installed web browser and away you go. Of course, Nektan games can be played on full screen devices like laptops and desk bound PCs too, and they look and play superbly. It is just that these sites are designed with the on the go player in mind, rather than being a bodged up miniaturisation of a full screen version.
Another big advantage of Nektan sites is their link up with payment service boku. This is another example of how the company designs its sites with the mobile player specifically in mind. Players on Nektan designed sites can pay for their play just by using their mobile phones. What could be easier than Pay by Text? All that’s required is for registered players to supply their mobile number, and payments can be deducted from their phone service provider’s regular monthly bill. And Pay as You Go customers are not left out either. Non-contract phone users can choose to have their payments deducted from their remaining call credit instead. There is a maximum daily deposit limit of £30 per day when using this service.
So you can be sure that if you are playing on a Nektan site, you really are playing on some of the biggest and the best sites in the business. They really are the cutting edge place to be for on the go players.
Nektan are the company which provides the software for the pioneering new mobile gambling sites Sapphire Rooms and Chomp Casino. They have also recently signed a deal to partner the Sun newspaper’s new mobile gaming platform. The fact that this company really concentrates on and specialises in purely mobile and tablet designs means that the quality on hand held devices truly is exceptional. So much so that some older or less powerful devices will struggle to keep up with the processing power and speed required to maintain the designers’ vision. This can result in glitches and gremlins. It’s hard to blame the designers for this however – it seems more likely that it is the processing power of the device that is at fault. The games provided on these platforms are of very high quality, using the latest technology and software designs. Slots such as “Best of British” and “Gorilla Go Wild” are certainly very colourful and realistic in movement, with really sensitive and fast moving graphics. The sound is good too, if a little repetitive. Although many people may want to have the sound turned off if playing on a mobile. Casino style games such as roulette and blackjack were also very well rendered, and given that such intricate detail is required, they are surprisingly easy to play on the small screen. The graphics are very well rendered, particularly with the card playing in blackjack. The ball motion on the roulette wheel is good, although not quite like a real live wheel. The sound though, is excellent. All in all, Nektan provide an excellently designed gaming experience customised purely for the smaller device. It really is surprising how well the designers have squeezed all the necessary detail onto such a small screen – particularly with the casino style options. I can foresee only two problems: firstly, some mobile owners will be anxiously poring over their phone contracts to investigate the prospect of an upgrade – some older handsets will simply not be able to cope with the processing power required to run these games. And secondly, the availability of these games and the growing ability to make deposits via text (and hence your phone bill) will make the willpower to know when to stop absolutely essential. Please be sensible folks. Only gamble what you can afford.