After its smashing debut on the Android app market, with over 1 million downloads, Angry Birds has hit the first snag on its Android journey. Users with older versions of Android are having trouble getting the game to run on their smartphones. The developer blog has apologised and has posted that they might release a lightweight version of the game in the future.
A cross between Pingu and Worms, Angry Bird is an eclectic blend of the fun elements from those games mated to a simple physics based gameplay. The game requires you to launch the birds in a Kamikaze attack on the pig, who has apparently stolen their egg, breaking through increasingly convoluted defences shored up by the pig. The inherent simplicity and tactical variety offered by game is largely behind its whopping success.
Angry Birds is not supported by smartphones installed with Android 1.6 or earlier (or custom ROM). The Rovio blog mentions that it intends to ensure that players can access Angry Birds even on Android handsets with relatively lesser processing power. It also assures that a lighter version doesn't mean that the game will compromise on level or gameplay quality. Rovio claims that it hasn't addressed the issue yet because it doesn't want multiple versions of Angry Birds. That reason makes little sense because confused users are much better than no users at all, which seems to be the case for Android owners with versions 1.6 and earlier.
Following is the list of Android devices that aren't officially supported by Angry Birds:
Droid ErisHTC DreamHTC Hero/T-Mobile G2 TouchHTC Magic/Sapphire/Mytouch 3GHTC TattooHTC WildfireHuawei Ideos/U8150LG Ally/Aloha/VS740LG GW620/EveMotorola Backflip/MB300Motorola Cliq/DextSamsung AcclaimSamsung Moment/M900Samsung Spica/i5700Samsung TransformSony Ericsson Xperia X10 miniT-Mobile G1
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