If you ask a Blackberry owner how did he manage to survive before the introduction of this wonderful gadget, most of them would simply answer: “I have no idea”. For those of you who are not familiar with it, the BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. The good news are that from today, online casino and online poker players also have a good reason to own a Blackberry.

Gameloft, an international publisher and developer of video games for mobile devices, headquartered in France, developed in the past several games for the Blackberry, the last of them being Texas Hold’em, one of the most popular variations of online poker. From now on, Blackberry subscribers – and there are more than 8 millions of them – can simply download the game from Gameloft’s website and play it online, just like they were at an online casino.

This popular version of online poker joins several other gameloft’s games, which are available for to Blackberry users. Among them players can find games based on popular TV series, such as “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives”, but also more traditional games like Solitaire and Chessmaster. Right now Texas Hold’em is still the only available online casino game for download, but more are sure to come along the way. There are many reasons for buying a Blackberry: commodity, efficiency and connectivity are all among those reasons, but from now on if you’re an online poker fan you have another one.