iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded over a billion ‘apps’ guides, translation dictionaries, travel tools and various other applications onto their devices since the launch in July 2008.

It certainly has been an unexpected success of the iPhone and iPod touch as a gaming platform which has taken most of us by surprise.

The capabilities of Apple’s devices have pleased video game developers allowing them to experiment with all kinds of new game play instead of the usual simply whacking buttons, instead players gently tap the screen of their iPhone or actually move the device itself.For more information visit telegraph.co.uk