After almost one year toting my trusty, but battery-sucking Motorola Droid R2-D2, I decided to buy a new phone. I was thinking of getting another Android, but after hearing my friends testimonies about their Samsung Galaxy S II and its paltry battery life (this phone, along with Sony Xperia Arc, is the top-of-the-line phone of 2011, mind you), I decided to look away from the green camp. Previously, once you move from Android, there’s only the iPhone. Although the kids seem happy on the Apple side of the world, I’m not content of spending upwards $700 for a 4 or 4S, when iPhone 5 will be released in 6 months. So I decided for a brand new experience, in form of a Nokia Lumia 610, a very cheap Windows Phone, priced only $250, bundled with a stereo Bluetooth headset.
An 800MHz single-core processor and 256MB of RAM doesn’t scream “high-end” in any way, but I wanted to thread the unknown waters of Windows Phone before investing $500 or more in the Lumia 800 (the 900 is still MIA in Indonesia). After all, I might hate the experience. But I was blown away. Despite having the specifications of mid-tier phone of 2010, navigating through the OS stock functions is smooth as butter. But, as you would expect, such specs won’t run every apps smoothly. In fact, Microsoft won’t allow us to download some games and applications that they think will not deliver the “Redmond experience” if used by the Lumia 610. Unfortunately, regardless of Microsoft’s restriction, those incompatible apps still show up in the Marketplace, waiting to be clicked by a Lumia 610 owner, only to smack us in the face with a “This app is not compatible with your phone” message and a non-existent Install button.
So, here I am, listing all the apps that I encountered that is not compatible with Nokia Lumia 610. I will start with the Top and Free apps & games, before eventually expanding to other games and applications through out the Marketplace.
List of games and applications incompatible with Nokia Lumia 610
XBOX LIVE Top (Paid) Games:
- Angry Birds
- PAC-MAN Kart Rally
- Sid Meier’s Pirates!
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
- Bejeweled LIVE
- Plants vs. Zombies
- The Harvest
- PES 2012
- Assassin’s Creed
- MONOPOLY
- Doodle God
- Fragger
- DODONPACHI MAXIMUM
- Deer Hunter 3D
- Lets Golf 2
- The Sims 3
- Rocket Riot
- Hydro Thunder GO
- COLLAPSE
- Glyder: Adventure
- MiniSquadron
- Tentacles
- Spider Jack
- IonBallEX
- Brain Challange
- Orbital
- Fable: Coin Golf
- Cro-Mag Rally
- Beard & Beaks
- …
XBOX LIVE Free Games
- Bug Village
- Halo Waypoint
- …
Top (Paid) Games (Excluding XBOX LIVE games)
- Infinite Flight
- BlowSkirt ( Downloadable, but uses unavailable features: Compass)
- Gorilla Gondola
- Fight the Landlord (Dou Di Zhu)
- Old School Racer
- Discovery
- Clowning Around
- Make Me A Pricess (Downloadable, but uses unavailable features: Front-facing camera)
- Hyper Defence XT
- Arcane’s TD
- Bonnie’s Brunch
- The Fall of Gods
- Shuriken Ninja
- Techno Kitten Adventure!
- CastleDefense
- Daisy Mae’s Alien Buffet
- …
Free Applications
- Skype
- Tango Video Calls
- …
So, there you have it. This lists is not by all means complete. I will be updating them when I find more incompatible apps. By making this list, I hope I could help some people who are currently considering this phone (or other low-budget Windows Phone, since Microsoft keep a very tight spec sheet, phones should have similar hardware underneath).
Feel free to share any more incompatible applications you encountered. Other than that, what do you think of the new Nokia Lumia 610? Would you get them for yourself? Is there any officially compatible apps, but run like shit? Share them all in the comments below!
Kursi Malas Babang Don Zafir 