Cell phones are becoming more than accessories for communication. They come with a host of features. With increasing advancements in technology, these features are also increasing. Adding to their popularity is the host of freebies that could be inserted into a cell phone. Importantly, most of them are for free: cell phone software, free cell phone plans, free cell phone offers, free cell phone ringtones, free prepaid cell phones, and even free cell phones. There is even something known as free cell phone number search. But perhaps the most famous of these freebies are free cell phone games. They must be probably the most popular form of gaming the world over.

Gaming is in itself a megabucks industry, with developers betting big on the future of mobile gaming. Leading service providers are confident that consumers will spend big bucks just to play video games on their cell phones. They are being proven true, too, to a large extent. The mobile gaming industry is growing at such a rapid pace, that even games developed yesterday seem to get outdated in a matter of weeks. Poker, solitaire, soccer, juiced, bubbly quest - the list is long and is increasing at an amazing pace. Software developers are working towards making these games more and more realistic, so as to increase their popularity. Competition among service providers and handset manufacturers is also driving up the popularity of mobile gaming. Increasingly they are coming out with fabulous offers in the form of free games, either downloadable from the Internet or games which come with the simulation or which may be pre-programmed in the handset.

Cell phones have become almost handheld computers. One can even dare to say that these easy to play games have relegated the very purpose of cell phones to second place i.e., for speaking. Free cell phone games are here to stay.