Mobile phones aid roulette cheats

A GROUP OF Eastern Europeans have apparently found a way to utilise their smartphones to cheat at roulette.

The trio, two Serbian men and a Hungarian woman, apparently won £1.3 million at London's Ritz Casino using software which turned their smartphones into scanners.

The handsets were able to determine the roulette ball's speed and then predict its likely landing place. Obviously the precise origin of the smartphone software has not been revealed but PDAs with built-in scanners are commonplace.

Psion Teklogix launched one last week at CeBit. It is also unclear whether the trio technically broke the law. µ