Friday, January 11, 2008

FREE Games for Your Cell Phone

GameJump.com has a ton of games and handy little applications you can download for your cell phone and it seems they are free. Membership in the GameJump website is definitely free but you are still liable to your cell phone company for minutes used (if that's how your cell phone works, some don't) or extra text charges if you select an application that uses text messaging, etc. I'm pretty sure GameJump gives away their games for free.

Ahh... from their FAQ (LOL, why is that always the LAST place I look?):

Are these games really free?
Yes, these games really are free. We will never charge you a dime. And we won't ask you to sign up for a subscription or a token system or a premium SMS service. The games are paid for by advertisements shown before and after the games.

Will my phone company charge me anything?
We never charge you anything, directly or indirectly, now or ever. We do not have any relationship with your phone company, so we don't get any money from them either.

However, your phone company may charge you for using your phone. If you request that we SMS you a download link, your phone company may charge you for a standard text message based on your phone plan. When you download our games, you use airtime (or data), and your phone company may charge you for that, depending on your plan. Lastly, these games will periodically connect to our servers, and that will use airtime as well.

We recommend that you sign up for a data plan with your phone company. In particular, we recommend an unlimited data plan if available, since they're generally pretty economical.

How much data do you use?
Our games connect back to our servers to report the ads shown so that we can bill advertisers and pay publishers. They also have to fetch new ads. Typically this is 20-25Kb per connection. You do not typically have to connect every time you play.

Are you tracking me?
We do have to track the ads to bill advertisers, just like ad networks on the web track ads, but we do not map that back to your personal information. No personally identifiable information is sent unless you explicitly send it in a survey question. You do not even have to give us this information to download. For the legal details, please read our privacy policy.

And so on. It would be wise to read all their FAQ.

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