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Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

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Originally Posted by starman (Post 555988)

so there I am, at work, not much going down, I crack out my N900 and have a play of Angry Birds, my boss has a go and loves the simplicity of the game and nearly creams he's trousers when I tell him theres a version for his 3GS on the App Store..

Imagine my disgust/shock/horror/self loathing, what ever you want to call it, when the game plays better on the 3GS than my N900, and I mean better..

- Higher FSP
- More vivid colours
- absolutely 'no' jittering

What. The. Frak!!

Please don't go down the higher resolution route, no no no, that has very little to do with this type of game, a few animated bitmaps, governed by 1/2 a sinusoidal wave, and some basic physics at the end....

... I mean, come on.... really??

I was flabbergasted, then I had the usual iTunes Vs Ovi, discussion, which I cant defend anymore, how can you, the N900 might as well not have shipped with a Ovi link,

Sooooooo disappointed my Nokia and my N900 right now, double that up with the fact that Nokia still haven't sorted out the movie play back issues, I'm really regretting getting rid of my 3GS...

... Nokia have until the next iPhone to convince me that I didn't make a 2 year contractual mistake switching to N900, if by July my beloved N900 is still a horrid mess of unfinished beta software and issues galore I just buy a PAYG iPhone, as other devices really don't take my fancy.

:(

I could trade you my slightly used iPhone 3G for your N900 :D

Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

I already made a topic on this when angry birds was first released that covers all the issues you have stated.

Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

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Originally Posted by maluka (Post 556232)

I could trade you my slightly used iPhone 3G for your N900 :D

Yes please trade him his n900 for your Iphone so that he can play a much smoother Angry Bird on it.

Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

I have the Angry Birds game on my N900, (well whats available to put on there anyway) and my girlfriend has it on her iPhone. the game runs the same for both of us most of the time. occasionally the 900 has a little slowdown, nothing thats really a complaint.. the iPhone on the other hand often goes in to some sort of bizarre super slowdown where it literally takes almost 2 minutes for it to finish processing a graphic/animation sequence and then finally comes back to life and plays normally again. she got the game for that because she loved it on the 900. her first impressions after getting it for her device were that it looks better on the N900, and so does most other stuff that we both have. not sure why people say the iPhone is more vibrant. so far Im very happy with the N900 display and Ive had no issues with video playback yet either.

the thing that is ticking me off though is the lack of content and working store. and the part of that that really got me a little ticked at nokia was the price tag of $2.99 (for the 5 minutes it had a price tag) for that games extra 42 levels, where apple is selling the newer version with the extra 84 levels for $.99.

a lot of people spent a lot of money on this device and it sure is starting to feel like theres a serious lack of effort from anyone other than the maemo.org community to help actually make this thing a success.

Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

backing up the other 3 or 4 people here.
I've also played it on both devices N900 looks better, no noticable FPS drops.

Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

I went and read alexreed88's equally-badly titled thread, and I still don't know what you guys are talking about. Angry Birds runs flawlessly on my N900. I see no stuttering or anything, ever. But the N900's version looks much sharper.

EDIT: And I agree with MERVINATOR that the Ovi store is a monstrous, embarrassing fiasco. Shame on whoever was involved.

Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 556255)

˄˄ This ˄˄

Only once I was having slowdowns when panning the screen in the game. Resolved with a reboot.
In average I only need to reboot once a week, and my battery is lasting very close to 48h. And I play Angry Birds and other games every day when commuting.

EDIT: Oh and my gf plays at least 2h of blocks every day before going to sleep :D

Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

I don't know what you guys are talking about. Angry Birds on my N900 often slows down, pauses, jumps, jitters etc.

Maybe it's because in the background it's also running several instances of micro-b, downloading updates, running Doom (prboom), Duke Nukem, Wormux, Bounce Evolution, playing some music whilst showing me the lyrics, scrolling my friends' facebook status updates, giving me live update of the London Underground lines, showing me a teletext feed and running google maps, all whilst bluetoothing some files to my friends directly from a network share on my home server...

...at which point any iPhone waving friends have slipped their phone back into their pocket and sat down quietly in the corner. :D

Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

Another guy here who has played Angry Birds on the iPod touch, and noticed no difference in gameplay at all, only that the N900 had a much sharper image and looked better!

I have no bias towards the N900 either, I'm typing this from an Apple product right now ;)

Re: getting a bit hacked off with nokia!! :(

It really slower on N900.
Besides, this the one and only normal game for N900 which was released after the N900 debute.