The popularity of smartphones in the U.S. is leading to a spike of interest in downloading mobile games.
Downloads of mobile games increased 17 percent in November 2008 from a year ago, comScore said on Friday. During the month, 8.5 million people, or 3.8 percent of mobile phone subscribers, received at least one game.
Of those downloads, 34 percent went to a smartphone, such as Apple’s iPhone or Research In Motion’s Blackberry Curve, said Senior Analyst Mark Donovan. Last year, not one smartphone was among the top ten mobile devices for downloading games.
The iPhone and the Curve have replaced the RAZR and low-end flip phones as the most popular gaming devices, comScore said.
Posted by Mark Boslet 
