Last week we gave a rundown of our 5 favourite free Android games. This week we trawl Apple’s chart for some essential free iOS games, available to play on devices such as the Apple iPhone 4S and iPad 2. All the fun and all for free, here’s five free iPhone games apps which we’re addicted to.

Jetpack Joyride

First in our free iPhone games list is Jetpack Joyride. Meet Barry. He may wear a suit but he’s far from your regular guy. After breaking into a secret laboratory, Barry has commandeered a selection of jetpacks. With mad scientists, rapid fire missiles and deadly laser beams destined to stop Barry in his tracks, your mission is to control the Jetpack to avoid these hazards. Just touch the display to add more boost to your jetpack. Timing and quick reflexes are essential. High scores are determined by distance covered and the coins collected. It’s essential thrust filled fun in your quest to help Barry stay alive.

Like this games app? Download Jetpack Joyride from the free iOS games chart.

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Ninja Fishing

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Teach a Ninja to fish and he’ll slice the scaly beasts right out of the water! By casting your hook as deep as possible into the ocean, use tilt controls to reel back in as many fish as possible. Once out the water, use your sword to descale the fish ready for market; a concept similar to Fruit Ninja. With over 50 fishes to catch, there’s great variety within this free iPhone games app. It’s manic fish and slash gameplay, that will keep you coming back for more.

Like this games app? Download Ninja Fishing from the free iOS games chart.

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Mega Jump

How high can you jump? Help Redford defy gravity as he collects coins in efforts to throw himself higher towards the edge of the universe and beyond. Miss the cash however and you will plummet to a fall of shame. Guide Redford by tilting your iPhone left or right; the controls are easy to pick up and are surprisingly effective. As with Jetpack Joyride, it has the addictive element, making it acceptable to have “just one more go” in order to get further. With Facebook and Twitter integration, you’ll justify the extra time spent on Mega Jump to leap above your friends on the ranking lists.

Like this games app? Download Mega Jump from the free iOS games chart.

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Bejewelled Blitz

The next app in our iPhone games chart pushes the mind to the limits! With a screen preloaded full of mismatching bling, your task is to swap jewels around to form horizontal or vertical lines of the same coloured jewel. Bigger lines means more points. Sound easy? The panic and dread of the looming 60 second time limit, adds pressure which would crack any diamond. With the highest scores awarded to those who craft multiple combos or collect Hypercubes, you need to plan your moves a few steps ahead to dazzle the ranking lists. If you get stumped for too long, arrows hint your next jewel switch to help you dive straight back into the action. We think this game rocks and is a worthy entrant in our free iPhone games list.

Like this games app? Download Bejewelled Blitz from the free iOS games chart.

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..And our free iPhone games favourite: Slam Dunk King

Our final app from our free iPhone games list is fresh from PikPok. Slam Dunk King, challenges your finger swiping skills to master the hoops and dunk as many balls as possible. Flaunt your skills with trick dunks and smooth moves to earn as many points as possible. Watch out for the bombs though, they’ll blow up your basket! There’s a selection of games including Time Attack, Arcade and Sudden Death to choose from. With additional options to earn or buy coins to unlock new balls, courts and mascots, Slam Dunk King is sure to keep you bouncing from boredom!

Like this games app? Download Slam Dunk King from the free iOS games chart.

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So there’s our round up of our favourite free games available on the iOS platform. We’ld like to apologise in advance for any unsociable acts you may put your friends through as you strive for a new high score. Addictive and free, they’ll definitely keep you occupied. Join us next week for our run down on free games available from the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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Last month, Google revealed that their total number of downloaded Android apps had passed the 10 billion mark. The largest slice of the app pie went to games, with a staggering 25.6% of all apps downloaded, that’s 2,560 million games downloaded so far. Phew. Here’s our rundown of the top 5 free Android games available on the market at the moment.

5 – Zombie Dash

At the time of writing, this game holds the number 1 spot on the freebie Android games chart, having toppled the mighty Angry Birds from its pedestal. The secret of the Android games success is down to two things. The first aspect is its simplicity – you have two moves at your disposal, jump and shoot. The second aspects is zombies. People like zombies. Especially when you can shoot them. When jump and shoot is combined with zombies, you have a winning formula, as 5 million Android games downloads have so far confirmed.

Like this games app? Download Zombie Dash from the free Android games chart.

4 – Pool Master Pro

Pool has always been a popular game subject whatever the platform, and the Android games version continues the trend with its 10 million downloads. Offering practice modes, as well as options to play against a friend or the computer, simply add a pint of lager and bowl of stale peanuts to recreate your local pool hall as accurately as possible without ever leaving the house.

Like this games app? Download Pool Master Pro from the free Android games chart.

3 – Fruit Slice

There has been much debate over the two fruit based slicing games currently available. Fruit Slice and Fruit Ninja offer a very similar setup; various items of fresh fruit fly through the air as you swipe the touchscreen to split each item of your potential five-a-day. The plentiful produce is occasionally punctuated by Looney Tunes style bombs, which you have to avoid or its game over. It may sound dull, but it’s hugely addictive stuff. On the Android games chart, Fruit Ninja has the highest placing (although they both have 10 million downloads), but we suspect that this is just down to it having the better name. Ninjas are cool – ‘nuff said. Judged on the games themselves, however, Fruit Slice is the clear victor. It offers more games on the app itself, much better graphics, and a smoother gameplay. If you have a spare fifteen minutes to waste though, either of the two will pass the time nicely.

Like this games app? Download Fruit Slice from the free Android games chart.

2 – Words With Friends

This game is essentially Scrabble, but slower, which doesn’t necessarily sound too exciting, but stay with us on this one. The slow nature of the game is essentially its unique selling point, as it’s great for taking out on your afternoon break, playing your go, and then forgetting about it until later. The game consists of a Scrabble style set-up where you make words with the lettered tiles you are given, trying to use the double/triple letter/word squares to hit maximum points. As the title suggests, you can connect with your favourite social networking site to challenge your friends, or select random player in order to take on a mystery opponent from anywhere in the world. It would appear that ‘Words with Friends or Stangers’ just wasn’t as catchy a title. Either way, it has 10 million downloads to date.

Like this games app? Download Words With Friends from the free Android games chart.

..And number 1 of our Android games – Angry Birds

Probably the most popular smartphone game ever, with a mere 50 million downloads at the time of writing, our number 1 spot goes to those perturbed avians, the Angry Birds. It’s a total mystery as to why they are quite so angry, or why they take out their frustration by loading themselves into slingshots in order to systematically assassinate a race of green disembodied pigs with a penchant for flimsy architecture, but they just do. Spawning a series of themed sequels and special editions, such as the Halloween and Rio editions, and their very own merchandising line in the real world, the Angry Birds seem pretty unstoppable… especially if you’re a pig with no legs..

Like this games app? Download Angry Birds from the free Android games chart.

But why take our word for it, all Android games mentioned are free of charge so log onto the Android Market and check them out for yourself.

Prefer portable console gaming to Android games apps? Check out our blog on the soon to be released PS Vita. If you’ve played these free Android games, let us know what you think of them on our Facebook page. Find out more about Android smartphones.

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The PSP Phone very much resembles the PSP Go with it’s slide-out controls; including the obligatory square, circle, triangle and cross buttons, a D-Pad, what appears to be two optical trackpads replacing what would normally be the analogue sticks, shoulder triggers and the Start/Select buttons.

Where this starts to get really interesting though, is when we look at the phone aspect of this device, if the images are to be believed, it’s running Android albeit with a customised Sony skin on top. We can see the four obligatory Android hardware keys (Home, Menu, Back and Search) sitting just below the screen as well as a lock screen which will be familiar to anyone that has used a vanilla Android 2.2 device. Other features include a camera and LED flash on the back and a front-facing camera too.

Although, we’re still not 100% convinced by this, it’s either a fake or very early prototype; notice the lack of PlayStation branding, a mysterious ‘S’ in the centre of the controls and even more strangely, on-screen references to ‘A’ and ‘B’ buttons for Enter and Back. We really do hope this is the real deal and is simply an early prototype but let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. (Source: ElectricPig)

It seems to be an increasing trend these days for companies to sue each other, so much so that ‘Information is Beautiful’ have come up with the below info-graphic detailing exactly who is suing who and what for. Check it out, you’ll see that Apple are on the receiving end of quite alot of lawsuits, whilst Nokia appear to be a great deal of suing; not surprising in light of the recent loss of Nokia’s market share.

Apple simply do not want to operate in an entry-level market, their entire product offering is made up of high margin, aspirational products. A move into entry level offerings by Apple would completely undermine the brand image that has been built over the years, in the same way that Ferrari’s would, if they were to start selling cheap family hatchbacks. It’s just not going to happen. What do you think? Does the increasing threat from Android neccessitate a more diverse smartphone offering, or should Apple continue in their age old fashion? Let us know in the comments below.

The long running argument between Android and iPhone fans has always been and probably always will be, apps. Androids argument has always been around the amount of free apps that it offers in the Android Market where Apple fans are shouting about the higher quality and the sheer volume of apps available in the app store. Cutting a long story short, the fact remains that the Apple app store does still have the better quality ‘big name/branded’ apps, especially when looking at games, although by a rapidly decreasing margin.

The move into Android by EA would be a considerable blow in this argument, especially when you consider that the game titles you could expect to hit Android include Tiger Woods Golf, Need For Speed, John Madden Football, FIFA Football, Tetris and Monopoly. This also comes shortly after Rovio, makers of the #1 selling iPhone game ‘Angry Birds’, have also released a beta version of their smash hit game into the Android Market. The battle really is beginning to heat up, let us know which way you think it’ll go in the comments section below, or to take a look at our Android deals and get in on the action, Click Here.

Our Russian isn’t really up to scratch, so we’re going by the loose translations that our floating around, but if you should happen to speak Russian, feel free to correct the translations of the video in the comments below.

Admittedly you’ve been able to do this online via a laptop or PC for quite some time now but come on, grocery shopping on the iPhone is pretty cool. Click here for more info.

There’s no word on whether this will be hitting Android anytime soon, or indeed any other operating system, but we really hope it does! Keep an eye onthe blog for more details.

According to the report, plans are set to use the GPS capabilities found on the Xperia range (X10, Mini and Mini Pro) to ‘enhance the experience’, which to be honest doesn’t tell us much. Could this simply be a dedicated live-results based application that will join the Android Market or are we looking at the possibility of a much more in depth application offering results, fixtures, live commentary/highlights or possibly even a live streaming service to watch the action on our phones? Keep an eye on the blog for more details. (Please note, image is a mock up and not official imagery)