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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Angry Birds is coming ... to Windows Phone

By | February 16, 2011, 4:35am PST

Angry Birds developer Rovio Mobile has confirmed that its hit game is coming to Windows Phone.

“We’re working on it,” said Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka, when Pocket-Lint.com asked him if and when Angry Birds will be available on Windows Phone 7.

When probed as to the cause of the delay, Vesterbacka’s response was a little odd:

“Let’s just say, Microsoft has a lot of lawyers.”

No date for the WP version has been announced.

Note: Microsoft had erroneously included the Angry Birds icon in early WP promotional material.

In other Angry Birds news, the game is also going to be available in 3D (although no word on whether that will be for the WP platform), and there’s a Hollywood film in the pipeline too.

(Special thanks to the great Alfred Hitchcock for the ungrammatical but effective title of this post!)

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera.

Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include "Build the Ultimate Custom PC", "Beginning Programming" and "The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide". He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Adrian also runs a popular blog under the name The PC Doctor, where he covers a range of computer-related topics -- from security to repairing and upgrading.

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RE: Angry Birds is coming ... to Windows Phone
aijaz21ahmad 17th Feb 2011
WP7 is more good than iphone first gen phones it is more quick than android UI is something new to get not 2 decade old as symbian WP7 is more good than any body 1st gen phone why we are not giving time to them to sort all short comings
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RE: Angry Birds is coming ... to Windows Phone
Cylon Centurion 16th Feb 2011
Windows Phone is getting a lot of attention.... For a dead OS wink
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@Cylon Centurion 0005 Yep sure is, and it's mostly because Microsoft is pumping money into an ad campaign that's failing miserably....

Ballmer is like that Iraqi general back in 03 that's standing in the street saying there are no US troops in Baghdad and a M1 Abrams is rolling down the street behind him.

Win Phone is DEAD.
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Um....
wolf_z 16th Feb 2011
@Ron Burgundy

If the ad campaign is failing miserably, then how is WP7 getting a lot of attention?

Surely if it's getting a lot of attention that means the ad campaign is *working*? happy
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@Ron Burgundy

That's weird, mine is working fine wink
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@Ron Burgundy I agree with wolf_z how is the ad campaign failing miserably? WP7 seems to be very much alive to me ... true Microsoft didn't give it the introduction it diserved, but still doesn't mean its dead.
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@Ron Burgundy

Did you see the article on InsideMobileApps.com yesterday. Already gaming purchases are showing far more promise on WP7 than Android and in some cases the WP7 versions are making more already. Even Android's top seller Need for Speed only doubled the amount of revenue over the WP7 version.
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Win7 Dead
ParrotHead_FL 16th Feb 2011
@Ron Burgundy Someone had better tell the app developers, because the Marketplace is growing by leaps and bounds. The phone just came out in November, and here in February there are well over 8,000 apps available.
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@Ron Burgundy It's not dead yet...just one less thing for the rest of us to rub in WP7 users faces that they don't have.. But there are so many other things that it's not like we're going to run out. Plus it certainly is a long way away from WP7 users having a wealth of features other phones don't. This is just about WP7 getting slightly less suck.
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@Ron Burgundy Not dead yet, but might as well be. I give Microsoft another year to figure out they're beating a dead horse.
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@Cylon Centurion 0005 But what kind of attention? Ask HBGARY Inc. if attention is always a good thing. In this case I think the big story is that WP7 listed Angry Birds as an app and apparently did so without Rovio's permission or any actual WP7 app planned and it had consequences. It also appears that Peter Vesterbacka may be running into some issues over Microsoft restrictions on app store content. Something I'd like explored further by ZDNet. This could indicate a bigger issue on the part of developers overall...This app for example is one that given it's popularity MS should be paying Rovio for and and not the other way around and gladly meeting any demand he makes over it. But that's not the MS way...Yet, on every other mobile device Angry Birds release has only meant solid sales and good PR.
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RE: Angry Birds is coming ... to Windows Phone
Loverock Davidson 16th Feb 2011
I call for a ban on Rovio and Angry Birds. They caused such an uproar when Microsoft accidentally used their icon that I believe no one with a WP7 phone should purchase this game. They more or less admitted to not wanting to develop for WP7 because they thought (wrongly) that it wouldn't do as well as it did. Rovio developers are self centered arrogant egomaniacs. They were NOT committed to WP7 so this announcement is just pure bunk.
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@Loverock Davidson Considering you don't own a WP7 phone that's not hard to do is it?

You still haven't purchased one have you?

Unqualified IDIOT.
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@Ron Burgundy

And you don't have one either, do you?

Makes you more of an unqualified idiot.... troll.....
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@Ron Burgundy I never came in here screaming about how awesome Windows Phone 7 for months and then admitted I didn't own one.

I own an iPhone 4. Loverock came in here and spewed how awesome Windows Phone 7 was and then two weeks ago made the admission:

"I can't wait to get one"..proving once again he's an unqualified moron.
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@Loverock Davidson Flagging my posts Lovey? Still haven't purchased a Windows 7 Phone, yet still in here screaming about it?

And I quote

"I can't wait to get one.".....

Ratted you out, sucks to be you.
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@Ron Burgundy you seriously need to get a life. WP7 isn't going anywhere. They released it for the public and I hate to burst your bubble but when the get a mobile platform that works in the enterpriose you will see blackberry, iphone and android all lose ground to it (although android likely wont notice as they will likely have a solid 50% of the marketplace by then).
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Haven't seen one in the wild yet
Ron Burgundy 16th Feb 2011
Vegas airport -no WP7 phones
SLC airport - no WP7 phones

Conference with over 1000 people - no WP7 phones

I'm sure they are out there.
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RE: Angry Birds is coming ... to Windows Phone
Cylon Centurion 16th Feb 2011
@Ron Burgundy

Considering WP is only months old....
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@Cylon Centurion 0005 I saw iPhones in the wild within a month of release in numerous places.
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@Ron Burgundy Give it a break, Ron. You personally checked out EVERY smartphone at each of these venues? You haven't a clue as to who had what. I'm not leaving SPRINT to get my WP7 fix immediately, but I will leave Android as soon as WP7 arrives at SPRINT. Look for me at the airport later this year -- I'll even demo multitasking and cut-and-paste for you. But, you'll have to start being a more pleasant person . . .
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@spyder3010 I have the same problem. My ISP of choice here in Saskatchewan only has the LG WP7 and I don't know when they will get any others. All the other companies here have them but I prefer SaskTel.
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@Ron Burgundy Yea i havent seen a single oen yet either
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Rovio has no choice now that fellow Finish company Nokia has gone WP7!!
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I'm quite please with the growth rate of the Windows Phone 7 app marketplace. It's growing at a rate, which if i'm not mistaken has been faster then the Apple App Market for iPhone happy
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@Justin071894

Really? Then I'm sure Microsoft will have no problems having the phone hardware manufacturers release the actual sales of the phones to the consumers rather than when Microsoft send the licenses to them.

Still waiting for the actual numbers.
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If you can't wait...
bestwp7apps.net 16th Feb 2011
Try Chicks'n'Vixens it's a great free Angry Birds clone, see our review here: http://www.bestwp7apps.net/?p=605
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I am sure that everyone knows by now anyway, but in the meantime you can of course play Angry Birds on your Windows PC!

... and it ceertainly is great fun to play it on a 'big screen'!
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@Ron Burgandy went to bbq over the weekend....4 people out 20 with WP7 phones. If that's just at the bbq can't wait to see the uptake at my conference in Sydney next week.
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lmfao they probably got sued into making a version
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The Grammar is fine
bran.e.murray 17th Feb 2011
"Angry Birds" is the title of a singular game, so it is indeed correct to use "is" instead of "are", though it may sound strange. If you were talking about the impending assault of the little angry birds themselves, then you should use the plural, but the way you used it--and, in fact, the way the Hitchcock promotional materials for The Birds used it--is correct.
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Hi Ron, I have a WP7
bran.e.murray 17th Feb 2011
And I enjoy it a lot.

The biggest problem with WP7 acceptance is that Verizon doesn't carry it yet (#1 carrier in the US) and ATT (#2 carrier in the US) has only two that are worth considering. One of which I have and love (Samsung Focus).

If you don't have one, you don't know what you're talking about.
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WP7 is more good than iphone first gen phones it is more quick than android UI is something new to get not 2 decade old as symbian WP7 is more good than any body 1st gen phone why we are not giving time to them to sort all short comings

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