"Lightweight" Angry Birds Queued up for Android Devices

November 18, 2010 10:50 AM

Rovio, the developer behind the wildly popular Angry Birds game, has apologized for performance issues across numerous Android handsets and brings news that the studio is working on a "lightweight" version of the game.

We are currently developing a lighter solution to run Angry Birds on lower end Android devices. This does not mean lighter gameplay or a lesser amount of levels, but a game experience optimized for devices with less processing power.

That should help with older devices, but what about newer devices? Some are having issues, but Rovio is "preparing a new solution for the next update, but for the time being, the Android devices listed below are not officially supported by Angry Birds:

Droid Eris
HTC Dream
HTC Hero
HTC Magic/Sapphire/Mytouch 3G
HTC Tattoo
HTC Wildfire
Huawei Ideos/U8150
LG Ally/Aloha/VS740
LG GW620/Eve
Motorola Backflip/MB300
Motorola Cliq/Dext
Samsung Acclaim
Samsung Moment/M900
Samsung Spica/i5700
Samsung Transform
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini
T-Mobile G1
T-Mobile G2

The Android version of Angry Birds is free, but supported by advertisements. Rovio "wanted to make Angry Birds available for every feasible Android device. This is why we chose to distribute the game via GetJar, and why the game is supported by advertising."

Do you have any of the listed devices and Angry Birds? How is your game performance?

Brian Leahy

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November 18, 2010 10:56 AM

i have a Sprint HTC Hero (550mhz processor i think) and it's a slide show most of the time. There's a delay between what you touch and what happens on the screen as well. Still looks nice, but performance is definitely at a disadvantage.