N9 full Angry Birds uses NFC?
 

Strange how the new full version of Angry Birds takes SOOOO long to load (at least on my N9) after you click on the icon.

Watched it start up in the X terminal and it turns out that Angry Birds is initializing the NFC components and setting it to listen. This, coupled with some bad syntax (it just fails over without certain attributes available, no big deal) seems to contribute to the long load time.

Real question is, what NFC functionality did the devs put into Angry Birds on the N9? Maybe they kept the enhancements from the “with magic” version, but this is not referenced in any user facing portions of the game…

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I seem to remember reading somewhere that one can unlock some extra levels using NFC, there are a fair few web pages about it, e.g.: http://mashable.com/2011/04/19/nokia-angry-birds-2/

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That article reference "Angry Birds with Magic" which is the small free version of the game that comes with every N9. That version unlocks extra levels when NFC bumped against another N9 (or if you use the ForeverAlone hack).

What I'm seeing here is the regular full version of Angry Birds (seemingly identical to the one released for the N900), as running code to initialize the N9's NFC components with no apparent use case to do so.

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Ah my apologies, no clue in that case I'm afraid.

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That's really odd, I guess the best way to get a explanation, is to contact them & ask "what gives?"
Maybe (hopefully) they plan to bring some of the unique aspects of Magic, to this full version?
Though I imagine they'd be running away from N9/Maemo6x, now that this is ticked-off on their list :(

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[QUOTE=cddiede;1140793]Strange how the new full version of Angry Birds takes SOOOO long to load (at least on my N9) after you click on the icon.
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same here too, about 40 seconds from touch to main screen, by far and away the slowest loading app on my device

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Maybe next christmas there would can buy a new fancy birds with some stupid coupons with that?

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There is an app to unlock the levels without using the NFC ;)
And it also changes it back !
"Foreveralone"

Re: N9 full Angry Birds uses NFC?
 

He's not talking about the angry birds version you're thinking of.
Re-read....

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the NFC functionality (to ulock the next levels) is in Angry Birds Magic !
Re-read pls.

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And he's not talking about angry birds magic.
Again.... pls re-read 1st and 3rd posts...

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Just downloaded the update for Angry Bird from the Nokia store. Looks like they've "fixed" the NFC issue.

Now the game starts just as fast as it should and I no longer see the delay associated previously with NFC components. :)

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Confirm that the slow game-start is solved since the update.

P.S. I hate the missing update-notification, witch means that you have to look in the downloads for eventually updates.

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That is solved in PR1.2, I guess.

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Thanks, I've read the changelog and hope it will notify also the MeeGo updates (never got PR 1.1. notified and so I had to update via NSU).